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What are bad recommendations you hear in your profession or area of expertise?
Katie Taylor

Irish professional boxer; Olympic champion 2012

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
I have never felt the need to trash talk, and I'm not going to start now! I just quietly do my job and then quietly step into the ring to showcase what I can do. And one thing is for sure: I'm going to leave it all in the ring. I've always had such a will to win, and I always give my heart and my soul, so I don't need to change who I am.

RTÉ, 7 July 2025 source ↗

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Richard Ford Novelist and short-story writer
These mandarin-precious-princess-and-the-pea notions about a writer’s “special place” just didn’t match my life.
Recorded Travis Holland, Interview, Fiction Writers Review, 11 April 2011 source ↗
David Hare Playwright and screenwriter
Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
Recorded The Guardian Review, 20 February 2010 source ↗
Terence Tao Mathematician; Fields Medallist, 2006
AI without validation is too unreliable to be of use in any serious application.
Recorded Quanta Magazine reporter, Reported interview, Quanta Magazine, 13 April 2026 source ↗
John Lewis U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966
I would come home and ask my mother, my father, my grandparents, my great-grandparents, 'Why?'. And they would say, 'That's the way it is. Don't get in the way, don't get in trouble!'
Recorded Emory University Quadrangle, Atlanta, Speakola (speech transcript archive), 12 May 2014 source ↗

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Question What is one of the best or most worthwhile investments you have ever made — of money, time, or energy? Money & investment
The reason I've been able to keep going for so long is because of how much I love my sport. I still haven't lost that drive. I'm still as passionate about my sport today as I was when I first laced up a pair of boxing gloves. I love preparing for battle and getting into that mindset you must reach when you're putting your body through torture in training camp.
Recorded RTÉ, 7 July 2025 source ↗

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