Love is everything.
Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 May 2010 source ↗
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?Originally asked
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John Simm
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Live in the moment. Enjoy life because time cruelly speeds up as you get older and becomes scarily finite.
Shinya Yamanaka
Stem cell biologist; Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2012
So I think failure is important in my career.
Know the things you are responsible for and the things you aren’t.
Henry Marsh
Neurosurgeon and writer
A close, loving family and work position in society which is meaningful, which is about making the world a better place rather than getting a bigger - having a bigger bank account.
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I like collecting rocks,” she smiles. “I’m obsessed with them. I don’t pick up any old rock; it has to have some kind of interest.
To my mum, for being such a tricky teenager.
That episode of Succession, probably because it reminded me of my dad.
Making my passion into a career.
I would definitely take myself aside and say, “Come on, don't be so hard on yourself.” I’m still very hard on myself now. I’m my worst critic.
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