Psychology

An actor who isn't acting becomes a sort of non-person. If you're not acting, what are you?

Actor 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. What I do is separate to me.

Actor 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. When you're acting, 10% of you needs to be conscious of what you're doing, and 90% lost in the moment.

Actor best known for Jurassic Park and The Piano films

Stories help us to develop cognitive flexibility, strengthen our epistemic muscles. It is an intellectual growth but also a spiritual one. It changes us deep inside. Stories rehumanize those who have been dehumanized.

Turkish-British novelist and author of "The Forty Rules of Love

That constant re-entry back into who we are if we're acting like someone, we're not is laborious and exhausting to do over and over.

Academy Award-Winning Actor Known for Dallas Buyers Club Role

When faced with the inevitable, get relative.

Academy Award-Winning Actor Known for Dallas Buyers Club Role

It's only when you look back that you can connect the dots to where we are right now. Looking back, I learned that it was those red and yellow lights that revealed those solar-powered green lights.

Academy Award-Winning Actor Known for Dallas Buyers Club Role

The greatest adventure that any of us can take is answering these questions for ourselves. This isn't deep, dark, conversation, it's normal conversation. The wisest, coolest prophets out there… people like the Dalai Lama… they're full of joy.

Academy Award-Winning Actor Known for Dallas Buyers Club Role

Before you succeed, you must first learn to fail. If you keep repeating the same thing, you're always going to fail, you need to adjust. We have to look at failures and use them as an educational tool.

Hall of Fame NBA Center & 4-Time NBA Champion

I actually find the training much more mentally challenging that the competitions.

Jamaican Sprinter & Olympic Gold Medalist, Fastest Human Ever

I am not someone who puts a lot of pressure on myself. I love a challenge and live for the big stage of an Olympic Games or World Championships. Some people get nervous for the big events but I look forward to them.

Jamaican Sprinter & Olympic Gold Medalist, Fastest Human Ever

In a certain sense, when things become ubiquitous, they also become 'invisible'. The process of connection has become much less visible, so that the feeling of 'my computer' 'connecting' to 'the Internet' has changed to a feeling that my computer is the Internet.

Co-Founder of Wikipedia & Online Encyclopedia Pioneer

It taught me the difference between the two types of people in the world. Those that own the store, and those that scrape shit off the floor. You have to decide which one you want to be.

Shark Tank investor, businessman, and former Canadian political candidate

What motivates great entrepreneurs is fear of failure; and here's the thing – most entrepreneurs fail several times before they achieve success, and the more you fail, the more fear you have.

Shark Tank investor, businessman, and former Canadian political candidate

I was the kid that was wondering what was faster, a car or a bee… what if garbage cans were gold… I'd posit these what-if questions and throw them to people around me.

Producer of Academy Award-winning films and television shows

This kind of play improved all of my cognitive skills and really showed me how journeys that began with curiosity could turn into bigger dreams.

Producer of Academy Award-winning films and television shows