What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore?
Recorded Abby Wambach said elsewhere, not written here
I stayed on the path out of fear, not of being eaten by a wolf, but of being cut, being benched, losing my paycheck. If I could go back and tell my younger self one thing it would be this: "Abby, you were never Little Red Riding Hood; you were always the wolf."

Barnard College commencement address, Radio City Music Hall, New York, Speakola, 16 May 2018 source ↗

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Jürgen Klopp German football manager; Liverpool 2015–2024
You have to change from doubter to believer.
Recorded Introductory press conference as Liverpool manager, Anfield, October 2015, Sky Sports, 17 May 2024 source ↗
Tony Fadell Engineer and designer; led the iPod and iPhone teams at Apple, founder of Nest Labs
Learn by doing, not learn first, then do. The way you discover what it is you like to do in life is by doing first, then learning about it.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 5 February 2016 source ↗
Ory Okolloh Co-founder of Ushahidi; lawyer and open-government activist
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.
Recorded Quartz written questionnaire 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 ↗

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