“We tend to go deeper with that in terms of specific facial expressions, body language, and vocal tone. And I think what's important to know there is that we often make a lot of mistakes when we're reading other people's emotions because we bring in our own cultural values, our own belief systems, and we oftentimes project emotions onto people as opposed to really knowing how they're feeling.”— Marc Brackett
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There is a strong possibility that the relationship between humans and their environment would be so fundamentally changed that hundreds of millions of people, perhaps billions, would have to move. History tells us that this carries serious risks of severe and extended conflict.
— Lord Nicholas SternEconomist & Author of Stern Review on Climate Change Economics
The people of the world are gambling for colossal stakes. Two centuries of scientific enquiry, founded in basic physics and powerful evidence, indicate that the risks from a changing climate over the next hundred years and beyond are immense.
— Lord Nicholas SternEconomist & Author of Stern Review on Climate Change Economics
We are the first generation that through its neglect could destroy the relationship between humans and the planet, and perhaps the last generation that can prevent dangerous climate change.
— Lord Nicholas SternEconomist & Author of Stern Review on Climate Change Economics
Short-term vision does not allow one to build better businesses and create value. If we keep a long-term perspective in mind, we will go through the good cycles and the bad cycles and reach the other side.
— Guy HandsTerra Firma Capital founder; acquired EMI Records in 2007
Simply put, a great business will understand its customers, have a clear, sound strategy and a business plan that can deliver against it.
— Guy HandsTerra Firma Capital founder; acquired EMI Records in 2007
While most people are uncomfortable with change we have a business built on analysing it. Our business takes advantage of challenges and the opportunities they provide.
— Guy HandsTerra Firma Capital founder; acquired EMI Records in 2007
To me, a great leader should be empathetic, authentic, entrepreneurial, creative, ethical and lead from the front.
— Guy HandsTerra Firma Capital founder; acquired EMI Records in 2007
The most common mistake is to stop challenging when things are going well. I recognise failure as not having made a business better than when you were first involved.
— Guy HandsTerra Firma Capital founder; acquired EMI Records in 2007
Playing chess, I learned the dramatic effect combining humans and machines. Humans have intuition, can recognise patterns and positions, and machines have brute-force of calculation and memory. By bringing these capabilities together in other walks of life, we can achieve incredible results.
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism
We cannot think about technology in confrontational terms. There is no race against the machines, there is no fight, no war. We have to end this long, historical confrontational narrative.
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism
People like Trump rally people behind them by pointing out threats; these may be real, but most likely are imaginary or inflated. Then he says, 'only I can protect you.'
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism
If you offer no vision for the future, someone else will. Our geopolitics cannot tolerate a vacuum, and if you retreat- whether physically or ideologically- someone else will come up with a plan which may not be complementary for democracy.
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism
History is not linear, like the chapters of a book… History moves through seasons, and so winters are inevitable.
— Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion & Political Activist Against Russian Authoritarianism
Entrepreneurs are people who by nature are optimists, who can tolerate risk and who have huge curiosity.
— John SculleyCEO of Apple Computer Company during the 1980s and 1990s
Kodak had been living in linear-time, something which is intuitive to most of us, where we think in days, weeks, months, years… The world had already started to shift when people like Steve Jobs started to take-advantage of the fact that you could connect the dots.
— John SculleyCEO of Apple Computer Company during the 1980s and 1990s
Here was Steve Jobs and Bill Gates- two young guys, under the age of 30, talking about their noble cause of empowering knowledge workers with tools for the mind, making them incredibly productive, and helping them to change the way things were done in our world; creating entirely new industries in the process.
— John SculleyCEO of Apple Computer Company during the 1980s and 1990s