“I think that single trait — self-awareness — or rather, that skillset, outweighs all the others put together. You're filtering every experience you have with others through your own perceptions, your own biases, your own reactions and instincts. So you have to know yourself first before you can truly know anyone else.”— Martin Dubin
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More than most artforms, music is the one that can't be beaten, tamed or matched. It just impacts your soul. I love producing music that gives people hope, makes them feel good, and gets them dancing and moving.
— Ally BrookeFormer Fifth Harmony Member & Solo Artist
The moment I sang and I saw the audience loved it, I felt this powerful electricity all over me, it was like falling in love and knowing my purpose right there and then. I didn't know what journey my dreams would take, but I knew singing filled me up like nothing else could. It felt like a superpower.
— Ally BrookeFormer Fifth Harmony Member & Solo Artist
Social media was kind-of created to destroy humanity, in a literal sense. The first notion of the implications of such networks was provided by B. F. Skinner who spoke of the dangers of people who- on networks- were too free, too creative and too uncontrolled.
— Jaron LanierPioneer of Virtual Reality & Critic of Social Media
We are now 10 years into the mass warping of the human collective psyche because of a lack of checks and balances. To even begin to correct what's already happened means we have to wake up to the challenge of a world which must collectively wake-up from a mass delusion that has warped our trajectory as a civilisation.
— Tristan HarrisDesign ethicist & founder of Center for Humane Technology
Technology claims to be showing us a mirror of what was already present in society but in reality, technology is a funhouse mirror with a feedback loop that's engineered to show us the most egregious parts of society that are better at keeping our attention.
— Tristan HarrisDesign ethicist & founder of Center for Humane Technology
Technology is systematically undermining human weakness, the costs are huge. This is what degrades our quality of life and how we make sense of the world. This is what destroys our ability to form identity, to form relationships and make choices.
— Tristan HarrisDesign ethicist & founder of Center for Humane Technology
The purpose of intelligence is to improve the quality of decision making by reducing ignorance. The more you know the more likely it is that a sound decision will be taken. That applies to all of us in our day-to-day decisions.
— Professor Sir David OmandFormer UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator & National Security Adviser
Our knowledge of the world is always fragmentary and incomplete and our explanations of how the world works have therefore to be considered as provisional. This means we have to accept that sometimes we will turn out afterwards to have been wrong.
— Professor Sir David OmandFormer UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator & National Security Adviser
In comparing alternative explanations, it is not necessarily the one with the most evidence apparently in its favour that we should choose but the one with least evidence against it. One solid piece of evidence can demolish a hypothesis.
— Professor Sir David OmandFormer UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator & National Security Adviser
We need to give women the freedom and confidence to believe and be whatever they want to. This isn't just about business, but about social conditioning in all cultures.
— Jacqueline GoldFounder and former CEO of Ann Summers lingerie and party plan business
Women need to be their own cheerleaders and remind themselves of the amazing things they've achieved.
— Jacqueline GoldFounder and former CEO of Ann Summers lingerie and party plan business
I got out of the Navy because I stopped getting adrenaline in gunfights. That's when it gets dangerous. You don't want to get killed because you get bored. A bullet only needs to be right once.
— Robert J. O’NeillFormer SEAL Team Six member who shot Osama bin Laden
If you want to do something well you do it 1,000 times, if you want to do something great you do it 10,000 times.
— Robert J. O’NeillFormer SEAL Team Six member who shot Osama bin Laden
As a leader, you also realise that calm is contagious. It doesn't matter how you feel inside, if you can portray calm- your people will be calm.
— Robert J. O’NeillFormer SEAL Team Six member who shot Osama bin Laden
Fear is healthy, fear is natural, and if anyone's ever told you they've been to combat and were never afraid... they're either lying or a sociopath. Fear is a very good reaction; it makes you think more clearly.
— Robert J. O’NeillFormer SEAL Team Six member who shot Osama bin Laden
You don't need to be a celebrity to suffer from what social media does to you; it's happening to everyone. For me, I have to find a routine and discipline with how I use my public image.
— Kalki KoechlinIndian actress known for independent films and *Chandni Bar* role