Compassion is just another emotion, exactly like love. There can be people for whom you can feel it, and people for whom you can’t.

It’s good to feel compassion, but in an ideal world you wouldn’t have to.

Genius is the process, the connections, the patterns that are invisible to the untrained mind, making them seem like magic.

Do you have the courage to save your life?

We try to be successful and balanced in our product and project design, and for us that means including the people that that product or project will benefit in the design of it.

Success is about the balance of your own voice, and other peoples' voices.

A successful meeting to me looks like a meeting where everybody has an equal chance to speak.

I try to set my ego aside as a leader, and in the position that I'm in, because it's about the bigger version. It's about equality, and that's something that all of us here can be part of. It's not just about me, it's not just my responsibility to make the world a better place for young women and girls.

It wasn't just about fighting for that organisation, it was about fighting for a space for young women that I feel quite strongly doesn't exist.

I learned that success, when it boils down to it, is about balance. If you break down success and equality, what you end up with is balance.

"Когато намериш себе си, вече не те е страх от нищо в теб, защото знаеш, че си истински. "

We can't undo the things that our ancestors have done to each other—the lands taken, the promises broken, and some of the dreams forgotten—but I think as designers, as artists, as whatever you are doing here; it's your responsibility to imagine this type of New Zealand that hasn't yet happened.

Brands are stories that we tell. Brands are promises that we make as business people.

Além de moradores nós somos agentes, [...] a gente se vira no que tem que fazer

The creative process is essentially impossible to describe.

I made my ignorance a badge of honor…what that meant was that I asked a lot of questions.

When I’m paying attention to sound, I’m thinking more about active listening. What are you hearing, versus what are you listening to?

There are a lot of times where we go into something with a preconceived notion, a set destination, a thing that we want to happen. If you take a step back, and you’re actively listening, there’s a way that the stories and the moments unfold for you in a different way.

Go for three feet past the finish line and you’ll do better than everybody, every time.

Never be afraid to show up for someone else.

Nobody leaves the battlefield unscathed.

It’s on us to make sure that change happens in a way in which all people are heard, all people are represented.

Every single person in this city has the ability to make change.

More important than making decisions is making meaning, is helping everybody make sense out of a complex world. I describe it in rules of thumb as changing the signal-to-noise ratio. We have too much noise—that's content. . . . What we lack is the ability to separate the signal from the noise—and that's what context is all about and ultimately that's what leadership is about.

Fast Company, when we started it, didn't have a founding story, so I made one up. Because the nice thing about stories is they don't absolutely have to be true literally, they have to be true to the spirit of the story you're telling.