“The most important lesson I've learned is that my energy level and outlook have an impact on the people around me and it's my responsibility to approach every day with positivity and excitement. We say that we are responsible for treating others the way we want to be treated, and at the most basic level, all of us can treat each other well by giving positive energy to those around us.”— Miguel McKelvey
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Your only duty is to take the rope and try to make a better one. Your only duty is to make the best rope you can for your children, for the next generation.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
If a product is really good, time will give it the justice of beauty -that's real beauty, intelligence beauty, honest beauty.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
The first thing to do for our ecology is not to use less electricity, it's to cease buying things that are not useful.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
We are the only species who have taken control of their evolution. We are animals who – one day – had an idea to become better. Billions of us have worked to make ourselves better.
— Philippe StarckRenowned French Industrial Designer & Architect Known for Innovative Product Design
A lot of governments and corporations have made pledges to be carbon neutral by 2050 without having any way to do it. They don't know how to do it. They don't have the tools to do it. We have found over 1000 solutions that can help.
— Bertrand PiccardSwiss Adventurer & Pilot of Solar-Powered Aircraft Solar Impulse
We can only solve our ecological problems by linking ecology and economy. If we can create the right economic environment, change will happen. If it's more profitable to be efficient than wasteful, we will be efficient.
— Bertrand PiccardSwiss Adventurer & Pilot of Solar-Powered Aircraft Solar Impulse
We have to understand that the world has been inefficient for decades, producing too much, using too much and throwing away too much. We waste 75% of the energy we produce, half the food we produce and half of our natural resources.
— Bertrand PiccardSwiss Adventurer & Pilot of Solar-Powered Aircraft Solar Impulse
I learned you always have to use the language of the people you want to convince. If you speak to heads of states and corporations about the costs, that will be incurred to protect the environment, they will never invite you again. If you come and speak their language about job-creation and profit, they will welcome you with open arms.
— Bertrand PiccardSwiss Adventurer & Pilot of Solar-Powered Aircraft Solar Impulse
We must not only use the emotional part of exploration, but also the state of mind of exploration which encourages us to get out of our bad habits, beliefs, everything we know, our comfort zone, and even our way of thinking. The mindset of exploration encourages us to find new solutions.
— Bertrand PiccardSwiss Adventurer & Pilot of Solar-Powered Aircraft Solar Impulse
The brain doesn't make a distinction about whether it's work or home. The key is to practice, practice, practice so that the skills become spontaneous and automatic.
— Daniel GolemanPsychologist who popularized the concept of emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence however is a skill that is learned and learnable. We learn it in life- and we can be trained in it. It's not enough to have someone come and talk to your team about why it's important however, it's something that needs practice, something that you have to work at.
— Daniel GolemanPsychologist who popularized the concept of emotional intelligence
When Google (a very high IQ place!) looked into their highest performing teams, they found the hallmark of those teams was a sense of psychological and emotional safety.
— Daniel GolemanPsychologist who popularized the concept of emotional intelligence
It's not enough to lead yourself, you need to tune into the people you work with- the people that you know- your family. You need to pick up non-verbal cues, facial expressions, tone of voice.
— Daniel GolemanPsychologist who popularized the concept of emotional intelligence
Emotions are the brain's way of making us pay attention immediately to what is most important so that we can react as quickly as possible. In evolution, that meant 'survival' – the rustle in the bushes may be our next meal or may make us its next meal – something that we have to chase, or run away from – and in either case, we don't want to have to stop and think.
— Daniel GolemanPsychologist who popularized the concept of emotional intelligence
I learned more from the people at those events – the community, the customer – than anyone in business.
— Ben FrancisFounder and CEO of Gymshark, fitness apparel company
I learn every single day from my girlfriend, my family, from graduates coming into the business… I try to learn relentlessly.
— Ben FrancisFounder and CEO of Gymshark, fitness apparel company