We're extraordinarily vulnerable to the functions of our heart, no other organ can cause sudden death.
— Sandeep JauharCardiologist and author of "Intern" and "Heart: A History
“As a team captain, you have to figure out how people work, you have to make sure you say the right thing to the right person… you have to know when to shout, when to listen, when to be tough and when to be kind.”— Vincent Kompany
Manchester City Captain & Belgian Football Legend
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Even if there's no profound cultural difference between brown, black and white Britons… they speak the same language, eat the same food, abstain from going to the same churches… identity culture assigns significance to their bodily differences, and so race exists.
— Kwame Anthony AppiahPhilosopher, Cosmopolitanism Advocate & Princeton University Professor
You cannot get rid of identities, but you can reform them. You can take a form of identity that's been historically associated with repression and hierarchy, and make it more egalitarian – that's what we've been trying to do with gender.
— Kwame Anthony AppiahPhilosopher, Cosmopolitanism Advocate & Princeton University Professor
Identities are useful – if you had to make everything up in your life, from the start, with no input whatsoever – that wouldn't be freedom – you'd be less free; you'd have to think constantly about what you should or should not do. There would be no structure for your life choices.
— Kwame Anthony AppiahPhilosopher, Cosmopolitanism Advocate & Princeton University Professor
Excellence is almost a tactile feeling – and it starts with a vision… sometimes a vision that shows you a path that's so good that it cannot not succeed.
— Stephen A. SchwarzmanCo-Founder and CEO of Blackstone, Major Philanthropist
Excellence means you do the absolute best you can in every situation that you face. It's an aesthetic concept, a performance concept, and helps you create the most perfect balance for success.
— Stephen A. SchwarzmanCo-Founder and CEO of Blackstone, Major Philanthropist
You start by asking yourself certain questions: who am I? what is it that wants to know who I am? What do I want for myself and the world? What is my purpose? What gives me meaning and purpose in life?
— Deepak ChopraWellness Entrepreneur & Author Promoting Mind-Body Medicine and Spirituality
I do not talk about life and death – I talk about birth and death, they are opposites, and life is simply a continuum of both, and you cannot have one without the other.
— Deepak ChopraWellness Entrepreneur & Author Promoting Mind-Body Medicine and Spirituality
In higher states of consciousness, we also lose our fear of death. The transcendent you is not in time. Only thought exists in time… only perception exists in time…
— Deepak ChopraWellness Entrepreneur & Author Promoting Mind-Body Medicine and Spirituality
When you start questioning and be mindfully aware of your thoughts, you realise that you are an observer of your thoughts, not the originator. You can then extend that observer experience to emotions, sensations, perceptual experience and every aspect of mental space.
— Deepak ChopraWellness Entrepreneur & Author Promoting Mind-Body Medicine and Spirituality
The reason for having leadership is to be found in the social nature of man. As an individual being man has the ability to act and to direct his own behaviour. But man lives in a society with a complex structure in which the actions of many individuals within groups in a variety of situations have to be directed.
— JJ DegeneaarOur entire civilisation is a manifestation of the complex inner worlds we carry with us. Everything around us, our buildings, cultures, politics, economies, statues, art and music are reflections of who we were, are and want to be.
— Jon Kabat-ZinnFounder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program
For thousands of years, the religions, movements and philosophers of the various iterations of 'us' have espoused mindfulness as being an essential life-skill, bringing us from wherever we may be to the here and now- where we are at our most alive.
— Jon Kabat-ZinnFounder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program
We spend a huge amount of our lives away from the immediacy of our existence, lost in reflections on the past or anxieties of the future. This misadventure in episodic memory takes a huge toll on us, leading to stress, anxiety, depression and exacerbating a range of complex medical and psychological conditions we may have.
— Jon Kabat-ZinnFounder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program
Looking back, it was one of the best things that could've happened to me.
— Manny PacquiaoWorld Champion Boxer & Philippine Senator
My hands have been known mostly for the leather gloves that I've used as an instrument to punish opposing fighters. Outside the ring, though, I want my legacy to be the man with bare hands that offered kindness and hope to those in need.
— Manny PacquiaoWorld Champion Boxer & Philippine Senator