We like to think of data as being objective, but the answers we get are often shaped by the questions we ask. When those questions are biased, the data is, too.
— Melinda GatesCo-Founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health Advocate
“By consciously and regularly going into the cold- I've learned how to tap into this primordial part of the brain; an area we've lost access to because of our destimulative behaviour. We need to get out into the cold, into the heat, and allow our brain to reconnect to these lost areas which simply are not activated or developed in our daily lives.”— Wim Hof
Extreme athlete known for ice exposure & breathing technique methods
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It's amazing how little data the world has about women and girls. There are even gender gaps in the data we use to measure gender gaps.
— Melinda GatesCo-Founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health Advocate
I believe that if we want technological innovation to live up to its potential, we have to ensure that everyone has access to it. If technology is just for the privileged few, then it will concentrate power in the hands of those who already have it.
— Melinda GatesCo-Founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health Advocate
In rich countries, 'innovation' often means finding a better way of doing things. But in developing countries, it can mean finding a way to do things at all.
— Melinda GatesCo-Founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health Advocate
Free trade, openness, security, and a stable government framework have been the key factors behind the emergence of Dubai as an international business hub.
— Hussain SajwaniFounder and Chairman of Damac Properties, major UAE real estate developer
Having forefathers as merchants that forged their own paths pushed me to pursue a similar journey. At this point I got a lead that there was a lot of potential in catering, and so in 1982 I set out to make my mark competing with major international companies.
— Hussain SajwaniFounder and Chairman of Damac Properties, major UAE real estate developer
For the entrepreneurial spirit to manifest as successful business and social endeavours, we need a nurturing environment and an infrastructure that celebrates the human will to solve problems and progress.
— Hussain SajwaniFounder and Chairman of Damac Properties, major UAE real estate developer
Our inner desire to start something new and make it big has been one of the most catalysing factors behind our collective evolution as a species. Our quest to explore and develop markets has persisted since the time humans have been trading goods.
— Hussain SajwaniFounder and Chairman of Damac Properties, major UAE real estate developer
We naturally will tend to read media or engage with dialogue that affirms our hypotheses, rather than looking at the truth.
— Chetan BhagatIndian Author & Novelist Known for Best-Selling Fiction Books
In reality, India is not as divided as you might think… hundreds of millions of Muslims live and work in India, they are friends with people in and out of their community, and just live normal lives like anyone else.
— Chetan BhagatIndian Author & Novelist Known for Best-Selling Fiction Books
India is conservative on the outside, but becoming more liberal inside. A lot of my stories are about the double life that younger India has to lead…. The conflict between conservatism and liberal values.
— Chetan BhagatIndian Author & Novelist Known for Best-Selling Fiction Books
Human beings are naturally liberal about these things, human beings are naturally in pursuit of wealth and in pursuit of love and in pursuit of pleasure. I think that happens more in the West or in developed places because it's more accepted there.
— Chetan BhagatIndian Author & Novelist Known for Best-Selling Fiction Books
My work depends on knowing real India, not the 'exotic' stereotype.
— Chetan BhagatIndian Author & Novelist Known for Best-Selling Fiction Books
No nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
— Abraham FlexnerEducational reformer who revolutionized medical education standards in America
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
— Dwight D. EisenhowerSupreme Commander of Allied Forces & 34th U.S. President
I do agree though, that in recent years receiving abuse online has been normalised to the extent that I expect it and know there's very little I can do to stop people from saying these things.
— Hussein Kesvani