“Whenever I write a new song with somebody, it feels like the first time. I sometimes feel embarrassed, humiliated, like I don't know what I'm doing until we find a spark. You have to dare to go to this place where, even though you've done it before, it feels like you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.”— Toby Gad
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You cannot genuinely connect with another human being through technology. You can only connect with other human beings through the mind, and through love, but technology can serve the process.
— Marianne WilliamsonAuthor of "A Return to Love" & Spiritual Activist
Society feels broken because society is broken. When the most powerful nations in the world are spending billions of dollars on ways to kill each-other, and a fraction of those resources on ways to heal each other, we're broken.
— Marianne WilliamsonAuthor of "A Return to Love" & Spiritual Activist
Every acorn is already programmed to become an oak tree, every embryo is programmed to become a baby, and every bud is programmed to become a blossom. Human beings are programmed as well, but we have something an acorn does not; free will.
— Marianne WilliamsonAuthor of "A Return to Love" & Spiritual Activist
I often hear people say that everything that matters must be measured, and if it can't be measured, it doesn't matter. I believe the absolute reverse. Nothing that matters can be measured.
— Abigail E. DisneyDocumentary filmmaker and philanthropist; great-granddaughter of Walt Disney
Even if I had all the money in the world, no problem worth fixing can be solved in my lifetime. The best I can do is to be part of the process, and to help the world figure it out.
— Abigail E. DisneyDocumentary filmmaker and philanthropist; great-granddaughter of Walt Disney
Money gets inside us; it creates our perceptions and changes the way we operate. It changes the people among whom we are, and who we are. When we're not in touch with that reality, it can change us in heinous ways.
— Abigail E. DisneyDocumentary filmmaker and philanthropist; great-granddaughter of Walt Disney
You must tell yourself the truth about money if you're going to give it away well. If you can't live well with $999 million, there's something clearly wrong with you.
— Abigail E. DisneyDocumentary filmmaker and philanthropist; great-granddaughter of Walt Disney
You create change in other people when you're totally honest, transparent, and authentic. When you show people who you really are, with all your flaws, with all your vulnerabilities…it moves them.
— Abigail E. DisneyDocumentary filmmaker and philanthropist; great-granddaughter of Walt Disney
Ultimately, I think we'll be able to pop a pill and reset our body's age. It takes us about 4-8 weeks currently to reset the age of a mouse, it shouldn't be any different for humans.
— David SinclairLongevity researcher & Harvard Medical School professor studying aging and lifespan extension
In December 2020, we published in the journal nature that we could turn on 3 genes in mice, that are normally only switched on in embryos. By doing this, we could reverse the age of complex tissues in adult mice. We used this system to restore eyesight to blind, old, mice!
— David SinclairLongevity researcher & Harvard Medical School professor studying aging and lifespan extension
We are literally right now living through one of the biggest revolutions in human history, certainly in medicine, and most people aren't even aware that it's about to happen.
— David SinclairLongevity researcher & Harvard Medical School professor studying aging and lifespan extension
Ageing is malleable, we can control it. 20% of our health in old-age is due to genetic factors, and the rest is due to our lifestyle. We can measure this clock. It's literally measuring chemicals in our own DNA.
— David SinclairLongevity researcher & Harvard Medical School professor studying aging and lifespan extension
You should try and copy everything you possibly can! It's just that if you run out of alternatives, if you run out of options to copy, you will realise that your entire life has conditioned you to not only be a great copier, but to hesitate when copying is no longer an option.
— Jim McKelveyCo-Founder of Square & Mobile Payment Pioneer
Most people I would consider world-class, successful entrepreneurs never volunteered for the job. They were kicked out like the guy who offended the king and was kicked out of the city walls.
— Jim McKelveyCo-Founder of Square & Mobile Payment Pioneer
I also want to dispel the hero-myth of entrepreneurs, that they're somehow super-gifted individuals who are better than me or the people I know. I don't know any like that – my friends sleep late, smell funny, do stupid stuff and have weird joint problems.
— Jim McKelveyCo-Founder of Square & Mobile Payment Pioneer
Doing something that has never been done before is terrifying… all the people who love you will tell you not to do it… not because they're jealous, but because they're genuinely scared for you… they're worried for your wellbeing.
— Jim McKelveyCo-Founder of Square & Mobile Payment Pioneer