You're not going to be a warrior in battle unless you are a warrior in preparation. You have to be single-minded, you can't just show-up on the night.
— Michael BispingFormer UFC Middleweight Champion & MMA fighter turned commentator
“It's hard to create a very successful company, not many people do that. It's even harder to create a company that is durable. Our aim is to create a company that outlasts its founders, and to build a hundred year company you need to provide great customer value, have great employees and great processes.”— Scott Farquhar
Co-Founder of Atlassian & Technology Entrepreneur
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When you're angry, you're in a frantic state of mind, you are not the best version of yourself. When you're fighting the very best martial artists on the planet, you cannot react out of emotion. You have to be cool, calm, collected and in the moment.
— Michael BispingFormer UFC Middleweight Champion & MMA fighter turned commentator
Martial arts gave me my identity, my purpose, a passion for a pursuit in life. I wasn't particularly good at sports, I didn't have many friends, and was a bit of a loner. Martial arts changed everything. I finally found something I was good at... it became my identity... it helped my confidence... it gave me a social circle!
— Michael BispingFormer UFC Middleweight Champion & MMA fighter turned commentator
While people have been worried about AI being embedded in humanoid robots from the science fiction world, our lives have been shaped and influenced by AI which makes tens of billions of decisions each day about what we see, and how we communicate.
— Dan HuttenlocherDean of Cornell Tech & Computer Science Leader
There's a delicate balance between making sure our values are encoded in these technologies as they come out- and not constraining them so much that we lose the technological race to other nations who don't hold our values.
— Dan HuttenlocherDean of Cornell Tech & Computer Science Leader
We haven't really had a technology like AI in the history of technological development – the closest analogy would be the movable type printing press, which came to the fore at the beginning of the enlightenment, some five hundred years ago.
— Dan HuttenlocherDean of Cornell Tech & Computer Science Leader
AI has been an area of technology for many decades, but the advances of the past five-years show us why this is one of the major technology events of the last several centuries.
— Dan HuttenlocherDean of Cornell Tech & Computer Science Leader
We have these floods of ideas when we allow ourselves to slow down – you get this pent-up energy that flows out of you.
— Joe SanokFounder of Practice of the Practice & Mental Health Business Consultant
The average person works more than five days a week… they're burned out by the weekend, they end up drinking too much alcohol, too much caffeine, they don't look after themselves, they're reacting to how they feel instead of preparing for the tasks ahead.
— Joe SanokFounder of Practice of the Practice & Mental Health Business Consultant
When do we have our best ideas? When we're in the shower… when we're on a long drive with a radio off… when we're on a hike. The research supports this too.
— Joe SanokFounder of Practice of the Practice & Mental Health Business Consultant
Work is preventing us living. So many people use work to avoid deeper topics around their lives, relationships, kids and health – deeper topics that can lead to the positive choices they need to make that will make them happier.
— Joe SanokFounder of Practice of the Practice & Mental Health Business Consultant
We really overvalue work, and undervalue fun, play and life. We've made work our highest calling and made hours worked rather than output the key performance indicator.
— Joe SanokFounder of Practice of the Practice & Mental Health Business Consultant
If your judgement is hijacked by emotions such as rage, fear, neediness, loneliness, or anger, you will act out of impulse – not out of value. This can be incredibly harmful – when the dust settles, you may realise you've messed-up.
— Ken LindnerIf you love yourself – and feel good about yourself, it will help you enhance your future, life, and relationships. Loving yourself makes you feel worthy and if you love yourself, you're far more likely to love others.
— Ken LindnerSuccess is as very personal benchmark – it's what the individual wants. To understand success, you have to know what makes you happy… not what makes your parents, spouse, teacher or children happy… but what makes you happy.
— Ken LindnerChoices are like train tracks – the train go where the tracks take them – we go where our choices take-us. Our lives are a reflection of the poor, and the positive, life choices we've made (and make!).
— Ken Lindner