“I firmly believe that a certain level of strength and mental discipline is a prerequisite to excel in this sport. It's a challenging path, requiring years to adapt to the physical impacts, injuries, stringent diets, and discipline. You either love it or you hate it, and those who love it, do it.”— Dakota Ditcheva
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You are as good as your highest level of preparation in any negotiation. In any negotiation, you develop trust by putting in time where you don't have any skin in the game; that means you need to watch negotiations happen- and get a feel for how it's done.
— Chris VossFormer FBI Hostage Negotiator & Author of "Never Split the Difference
Fundamentally; negotiation is about gathering information and processing it to be able to exert influence on an outcome. The best negotiators can do this in real-time through communication.
— Chris VossFormer FBI Hostage Negotiator & Author of "Never Split the Difference
An actor who isn't acting becomes a sort of non-person. If you're not acting, what are you?
— Sam NeillActor best known for Jurassic Park and The Piano films
There's also a danger in acting of identifying yourself as an actor. We have to try to identify ourselves as human beings first, and our jobs second. I'm Sam, I act sometimes… not I am Sam, I am an actor.
— Sam NeillActor best known for Jurassic Park and The Piano films
Authenticity- for me- is incredibly important. It's easy to spot the difference between acting and authentic performance- even though it may seem a contradiction in terms. You can tell when you see it, or when you experience it.
— Sam NeillActor best known for Jurassic Park and The Piano films
I've always been self-taught, sort of like the Grandma Moses of acting. If I'd gone to drama school, I would probably have had a very different career- perhaps not as much fun in some ways.
— Sam NeillActor best known for Jurassic Park and The Piano films
When social distrust mounts- when people feel like the game is rigged against them- they are especially vulnerable to demagogues who come along and want them to channel their rage, anxiety and distrust toward scapegoats.
— Robert ReichLabor Secretary & Economist; Leading Voice on Inequality
To be a billionaire in America today is less a matter of merit than it is a matter of being at the right place at the right time, and being a beneficiary of a set of rules designed to benefit billionaires.
— Robert ReichLabor Secretary & Economist; Leading Voice on Inequality
America has a class system, and it's becoming more rigid all the time. As inequality widens the ladder becomes so long that you have little hope of getting too far up it in your lifetime.
— Robert ReichLabor Secretary & Economist; Leading Voice on Inequality
It's not that capitalism is failing, but rather that the organisation of capitalism is succumbing to wealth and power. People with extraordinary power and wealth will organise and enforce markets in such a way that it benefits their wealth and adds to their power- it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy- a vicious cycle of more wealth and power.
— Robert ReichLabor Secretary & Economist; Leading Voice on Inequality
The hardest part of the job is telling those players that they are not playing, I remember from my playing days how that felt. This is when compassion is an important tool as well.
— Carlo AncelottiLegendary football manager with multiple Champions League titles
I wish I had known that Football is the most important part of the least important parts of my life. A bad result or losing in a final of the champions League is hard to take, but there are worse things to endure in life.
— Carlo AncelottiLegendary football manager with multiple Champions League titles
I know when this is coming because people at the club stop talking about the future. That is a big sign. When I see that the Arc is on the decline I start looking for a new Club!
— Carlo AncelottiLegendary football manager with multiple Champions League titles
Failure is an important tool with which one can reassess and reconstruct an idea or process, it is an essential element of the feedback loop. Failure should be used to step back and question your method and weaknesses. To recognize failure early can ultimately make one much stronger down the road.
— Carlo AncelottiLegendary football manager with multiple Champions League titles
Purpose doesn't come to people sitting at the starting blocks and thinking about purpose. You have to live it.
— Jacqueline NovogratzFounder of Acumen Fund & social entrepreneur focused on global poverty alleviation
Inside each of us are monsters and angels- there are no divisions between good and bad people- and I've seen how those times of insecurity can make us do terrible things to each other.
— Jacqueline NovogratzFounder of Acumen Fund & social entrepreneur focused on global poverty alleviation