What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore?
Recorded Ory Okolloh said elsewhere, not written here
I wish I had known how to “manage up.” I wish I had not believed that my work would speak for itself; the working world requires a bit more than that.

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Keith Black Neurosurgeon; chair of neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
If you want to do something, one of the smartest things that you can do is go find someone that’s done it and to try to get them to show you how they did it, to show you where the potholes are. What are the right steps to get there? ... And not just in terms of where to go to school, but what are the things that are really tough that you have to overcome, and how did you overcome it.
Recorded Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 4 May 2001 source ↗
Eliud Kipchoge Kenyan marathon runner
Only the disciplined ones are free in life. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods. You are a slave to your passions.
Recorded Address at the Oxford Union Society, November 2017, Outside, 10 February 2018 source ↗
Carlos Slim Helú Businessman and investor; chairman of Grupo Carso and América Móvil
The first thing to recommend is that they don’t work in some place that they don’t like, that they don’t do things that they don’t like. That they look for what they really want to do and what kind of thing they want to be involved in, or if they want to go it alone by themselves, to find that.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 2 December 2007 source ↗
John Lewis U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966
You must find a way to get in the way, you must find a way to get into trouble — good trouble, necessary trouble.
Recorded Emory University Quadrangle, Atlanta, Emory News Center, Emory University, 12 May 2014 source ↗

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