Leonardo DiCaprio / Леонардо ди Каприо

             

"Clean air, water, and a livable climate are inalienable human rights. And solving this crisis is not a question of politics, it is a question of our own survival."

"Чист въздух, вода, и нормален климат са неотчуждими човешки права. Решаването на настъпилата криза не е въпрос на политика, то е въпрос на нашето оцеляване."

"Climate change is real, and it's happening right  now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating... let us not take this planet for granted."

"Климатичните промени са релни и се случват точно в този момент. Те са най-спешната заплаха, която стои пред човешкия вид, и срещу която трябва да работим заедно без да отлагаме... нека не смятаме планетата си за нещо гарантирано."

Jawaharlal Nehru / Джавахарлал Неру


                 

"Freedom and power bring responsibility."

"Свободата и властта идват с отгворността."

"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit."

"Културата е разширяване на ума и духа."

"There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."

"Няма край за приключенията, които можем да преживеем, стига само да ги търсим с широко отворени очи."

"Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends."

"За да бъде ефективно, действието трябва да е насочено към точно формулирани цели."



100 Funny Jokes by 100 Comedians (The Telegraph) [Revised]

'I don't trust that man. Before he gave his business cards out, he shuffled them.'
Red Buttons

'My sister was with two men in one night. She could hardly walk after that. Can you imagine? Two dinners!'
Sarah Silverman

'The wife’s mother said: ‘When you’re dead, I’ll dance on your grave.’
I said: ‘Good. I’m being buried at sea.’'
Les Dawson

'I went to a restaurant that serves breakfast at any time. So I ordered 'French Toast during the Renaissance'.
Peter Kay

'I just need to make it to 34 and I’ve beaten Jesus at living.'
Sarah Millican

'I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'
Nick Helm

'The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how much I play, I’ll never be as good as a wall.'
Mitch Hedberg

'Posh hotels have a turn-down service. I had never heard of this and there was a knock at the door and a woman said, ‘I’ve come to turn down your bed.’ To which I said, ‘Well many women have in the past. Why should you be any different?'
Michael McIntyre

'I finally have the body I want. It’s easy, actually, you just have to want a really sh-tty body.'
Louis CK

'I like to play chess with old men in the park, although it's hard to find 32 of them.'
Emo Phillips

'God gave men a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.'
Robin Williams

'My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 now and we don't know where the hell she is.'
Ellen DeGeneres

'Two elderly women are at a Catskill restaurant. One of them says, "Boy, the food at this place is just terrible." The other one says, "Yeah I know. And such small portions."
Woody Allen

'I met my wife in Hong Kong. I said, what the bloody hell are you doing here?'
Alexei Sayle

'Do you know how many middle-aged men go out for a pint of milk and never come home? Not enough.'
Jenny Eclair

'Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.'
Benny Hill

'How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?'
Steven Wright

'Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.'
Bill Bailey

'Sir Bedevere: 'Now, why do witches burn?'
Peasant: '...because they're made of... wood?'
Sir Bedevere: 'Good. So how do you tell whether she is made of wood?'
Peasant 2: 'Build a bridge out of her.''
From Monty Python and the Holy Grail

'A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.'
Jack Benny

'How come Miss Universe is only won by people from Earth?'
Ross Noble

'I don't want any publicity – you get too many begging letters. If they're anything like the ones I send out I don't want to know!'
Tony Hancock

'My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I’ve finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.'
Dave Barry

'When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did – in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car.'
Bob Monkhouse

'First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.'
Steve Martin

'I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, 'My dad can beat up your dad.' I'd say 'Yeah? When?'
Bill Hicks

'You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.'
George Burns

'The Doc told me I had a dual personality. Then he lays an 82 dollar bill on me, so I give him 41 bucks and say, 'Get the other 41 bucks from the other guy.''
Jerry Lewis

'A few decades ago we had Johnny Cash, Bob Hope and Steve Jobs. Now we have no Cash, no Hope and no Jobs. Please don't let Kevin Bacon die.'
Bill Murray

'If we were truly created by God, why do we occasionally bite the insides of our mouths?' Dara O'Brien

'If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.'
Marcus Brigstocke

'It's important to live your life by a motto. I chose to live my life by the motto, 'My enemy's enemy is my friend.' Unfortunately, as it turns out, my enemy is his own worst enemy. So, I have to invite him to barbecues.'
Richard Herring

'Whoever said nothing is impossible obviously hasn't tried nailing jelly to a tree.'
John Candy

'Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?'
Billy Connolly

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/comedians/funny-jokes/red-buttons/

William Butler Yeats / Уилям Бътлър Йейтс

             

"Do not wait to strike till he iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."

"Не удряй метала, докато е горещ; напротив, направи го горещ от удряне." 

 "The good lack of convenience, the worst are full with thick hatred."

"На най-добрите липсва убеждение, най-лошите с гъста омраза са пълни."

"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."

"Най-лошото  нещо за някои хора е, че, когато не са пияни са трезвени."

TED Talks / ТЕД гост лектори

Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story

1. Know your goal of storytelling
- “Storytelling is knowing that everything from your first to your last sentence is leading to a singular goal."
- “Stories confirm who we are. And nothing does a greater affirmation than when we connect through stories."

2. Make the audience care
- “Make me care, please, emotionally, intellectually, aesthetically, just make me care."

3. Make the audience put things together
- “We are born problem solvers. We are compelled to deduce, and to deduct."
- "Don’t give the audience the entire story. Don’t give them 4. Give them 2+2."

4. Find the “spine” that drive your main character’s decisions
- “All well-drawn characters have a spine. The character has an inner motor, a dominant, unconscious goal that they're striving for, an itch that they can’t scratch."

5. Embrace changes in your stories
- "Change is fundamental in stories."
- “If things go static, stories die, because life is never static."

6. Construct anticipation with uncertainty
- “Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty."

7. Make your audience like your main character
- Make your main character likable

8. Have a theme
- “A strong theme is always running through a well-told story."

9. Invoke wonder
- “Have them surrender to wonder."
- “The best story infuses wonder."

10. Express values you personally feel deep inside
- “Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesn’t always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experience, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core."


 Roselinde Torres: What it takes to be a great leader

 "Great leaders are shaping their future, not just reacting to it."

"Great leaders understand that having a more diverse network is a source of pattern identification at greater levels and also of solutions, because they have people who are thinking differently than they are."

"Great leaders dare to be different."

"The best leadership development doesn't happen by just going off to a course or a seminar… The best leadership development happens when people are learning in the context of their own strategic, economic agenda, with the actual people that they are going to influence and lead."


David Logan: Tribal leadership 

"Leaders need to be able to talk all the levels so that you can touch every person in society. But you don't leave them where you found them. Okay?"

 
Stanley McChrystal: Listen, learn ... then lead 
"A leader isn't  good because he is right; he is good because he is willing to learn and to trust."


Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders 
"No one gets the promotion if they don't think they deserve their success, or they don't even understand their own success."

"Don't leave before you leave. Stay in."


John Wooden: The difference between winning and succeeding

"If you make an effort to do the best you can regularly, the results will be about what they should be. Not necessarily what you'd want them to be but they will be about what they should."

"Success is: Peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you are capable."

"Whatever you are doing you must be patient."


Maysoon Zayid: I got 99 problems ... palsy is just one
"If I can can, you can can."

Adam Grant: The surprising habits of original thinkers

"Originals are nonconformists, people who not only have new ideas but take actions to champion them... Originals drive creativity and change in the world." 

"To be original you don't have to be first. You just have to be different and better."

"When you feel doubt, don't let it go."

"The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they are the ones who try the most."

"The originals, they are not different from us."

"Being original is not easy but I have no doubt about this: it is the best way to improve the world around us."

Scott Dinsmore:  How to find and do work you love

"If we don't know what we are looking for we are never going to find it."

"Everything was impossible before someone did it."

"When ordinary people are doing the extraordinary and we can be around them - it becomes normal."

"It isn't about being Gandhi or Steve Jobs, or something crazy, it is just about doing something that matters to you and it is the impact that only you can make."

"What seems impossible can become the new normal."
 

David Bowie / Дейвид Боуи

             

"Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming."

 "Бъдещето принадлежи на тези, които могат да го видят как идва."

"I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity."

 "Във формите на ексцентричността намирам единствено свобода." 

"Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been."

"Остаряването е изключителен процес, при който човек става това, което винаги е трябвало да бъде." 

"My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it."

"Работата ми е винаги по-добра, когато съм егоистичен по нейно отношение."
"Music is a way of connecting people all over the world from all walks of life."
"Музиката е начин за свързване на хората по целия свят, и от всички сфери на живота."
"Living in fear is the lowest depth oh misery."
"Да живееш в страх е най-ниската точка на отчаянието."
"One who works only to become famous, he can be only miserable."
"Някой, който работи само за да стане известен, може да бъде само нещастен."
"Don't you love the Oxford dictionary? When I first read it was a really, really long poem about everything."
"Не харесвате ли речника Оксфорд? Когато го прочетох за първи път беше като наистина дълга поема з всичко."
 
 

Nikola Tesla / Никола Тесла


"Tell me, what will man do when the forests disappear, and the coal deposits are exhausted?"

"Кажи ми какво ще правят хората, когато изчезнат горите и се свършат запасите от руди?"

 "Everything I did, I did for mankind, for a world where there would be no humiliation of the poor by the violence of the rich, where products of intellect, science and art will serve society for the betterment and beautification of life."

"Всичко, което направих, го направих за човечеството, за свят, в който няма да има унижение на бедните от жестокостта на богатите, в който интелектуалните продукти, науката и изкуството ще служат на обществото за подобряването и разкрасяването на живота."

William Gibson / Уилям Гибсън

             


 "Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage."

"Душите не могат да се пренасят толкова бързо и остават назад, и трябва да бъдат изчакани, докато пристигнат, като изгубен багаж." 

Arnold Schwarzenegger / Арнолд Шварценегер

             

"As soon as you understand that you are here because of a lot of help, you understand that now it is time to help others. You got to help others. Don’t just think of yourself."


"Колкото по-скоро разберете, че сте тук, заради многото оказана ви помощ, ше разбирате, че сега е време да помогнете на другите. Вие трябва да помогнете на другите. Не мислете просто за себе си."

„Хората, които печелят в дългосрочен план, не са по-мотивирани; те са по-търпеливи и по-ангажирани да се появят, когато не се случва нищо драматично.“

"The people who win long-term aren’t more motivated; they’re more patient and more committed to showing up when nothing dramatic is happening."

"Turn me into we."

"Обърни аз в ние."

"None of us can make it alone"

"Никой от нас не може да успее сам."

"Trust yourself no matter what anyone else thinks."

"Вярвай в себе си, независимо какво другите мислят."

"Not what but who."

"Не какво а кой."

"You have to figure out what makes you happy."

"Трябва да разбереш какво те прави щастлив."

 "I didn't want to be just a bodybuilder champion, I wanted to be the best bodybuilder of all times. Deep, deep down ask yourself who do you want to be."

 "Не исках да съм просто шампион в бодибилдинга, исках да съм най-добрият бодибилдър на всички времена. Попитайте се дълбоко в себе си кой искате да бъдете."

"The most important thing is always to have a deadline."

"Най-важното нещо е винаги да имаш краен срок."

"Trust yourself no matter how and what anyone else thinks."

"Вярвай в себе си, независимо как и какво мислят другите."

"Dig deep, deep down, and ask yourself who you want to be. Not what but who."

"Погледни дълбоко в себе си и се запитай кой искаш да бъдеш. Не какво, а кой."

"Not the law but break the rules."

"Не нарушавай закона, нарушавай правилата."

"Don't be afraid to fail." 

"Не се страхувай да се провалиш."

"Pay no attention to the people that say it can not be done."

"Не обръщай внимание на хората, които казват, че нещо не може да бъде направено."

"You must always find time to give something back."

"Винаги трябва да намираш време за отблагодаряване."

"Work like hell."

"Работи адски много."

"You have got to be inside the muscle."

"Трябва да си вътре в мускула."