All Quotes

"If you feel powerful in a black swimsuit—wear it with pride"

"And if you feel your best with bare skin and a strong brow? Go for it."

"If you like it, wear it"

"Makeup, style, and beauty should never be about restriction. They should be about freedom—the freedom to feel like you, at every stage and in every season of life"

"You are allowed to feel good. You are allowed to enjoy beauty. You are allowed to be seen."

"Confidence is ongoing. Let’s keep showing up for ourselves"

"Skin first, confidence always. Less is more, but it’s not about doing less, more so choosing better. The beauty of now about embracing who we are - knowing what suits YOU, what brings you joy, and what makes you feel your best. These days, I’ve ditched the drama in place of well-prepped skin - the secret to glowing, long-lasting makeup isn’t in the foundation or setting spray, it’s in the skin underneath. When your skin is healthy and you’re already glowing, all you need is a touch of makeup to bring your face to life. I look for multi-tasking products infused with skincare ingredients, and use only where needed. Whilst the drama may have softened, confidence is stronger than ever."

"Whether it was over-drawn, over-plucked brows or, in my case, striped eyeshadow, every look served its purpose. The most beautiful thing about style is that it evolves and grows with you… so rather than look back with embarrassment, it gives me huge joy to look back and see myself experimenting and just having fun with it. At the end of the day, that’s what makeup should be - FUN"

"Looking good is all about self-confidence"

"True beauty is not defined by age, colour, size or sex - it is reflected by the spirit within. Someone who has a ready smile, who shows kindness and warmth is always beautiful"

"The darkest berry shade looks beautiful on me as someone with a nude complexion and equally as beauty on someone with a pale skin tone"

"We are constantly discussing ingredients, sustainability, formulation advancements and new packaging innovation. Whilst we have to be conscious of costs in the given climate, launching products that don’t deliver would be detrimental to my credibility as an artist and brand founder"

"Our main goal is to enhance people’s natural beauty, creating a safe space to ask questions online and encourage people to embrace their unique looks"

"Does your product or service already exist? What is your point of difference? Also, don’t be overwhelmed by other people’s opinions"

"I may not shout and scream but I have always stood up for accessibility. Nobody should go into a store or shop online and find that nothing works for them"

"When I browsed stores, I noticed a lot of complicated products being touted as ‘perfect’ for altering your appearance to look like someone else. The increase of filters being used online created a gap in the market for those that wanted a more natural, simple approach. I want to see people celebrating themselves and feeling comfortable in their own skin"

"Nothing could have prepared us for the complications that arose. Applying makeup was banned, so technology became key to the business rather than a hands-on approach. You had to learn to adapt"

"I wanted people to feel free to use them whenever they wanted, using their creativity rather than feeling constrained to a name. I use the tapered brush for shadow work on the eyes as well as to strategically apply concealer. Everything is designed by an artist, made for you"

"Women invest their earnings in the family. Women are half of the resources of the world – if a country doesn’t invest in its female resources, it loses half of the productivity it might have."

"I’m constantly on the lookout for new and innovative products. It can be overwhelming when you see brands with thousands of lines. As an artist, I’m constantly editing down the products I have for my kit, and I wanted to make it easy for everybody to do the same"

"The Role of Gender-Responsive Organizations in Global Science," explaining the concept and expanding on it. Being gender-responsive, she said, means creating an environment that promotes an inclusive approach, recognizing the needs of both women and men."

"There are still many unconscious biases that prevent building a workplace where everybody is appreciated, respected and treated equally. Unfortunately."

"We tend to think that numerical gender parity is a good achievement in itself and that increasing the number of women fellows within institutes and academies is a valuable milestone," Diab said in her presentation."

"She continued, “However, gender transformation involves far more than achieving gender parity. It is a shift from a focus on statistics to a deeper dimension that embraces an understanding of the needs and aspirations of all people, especially women."

"Addressing only the notion of parity in numbers is not enough. We need to take bolder steps,"

"Institutions and academies worldwide should give more visibility to women scientists."

"TWAS has great potential to play a powerful gender-transformative role and to influence norms and practices in science academies across the developing world. TWAS draws its fellows, prize winners and attendees at events from multiple countries and also has five regional partners through which it can play an influential role.” And finally"

"Achieving gender transformation requires the engagement of both men and women. It's not only a men's or women's responsibility: we can travel this journey together"

"It's actually none of that," said Sahar. "Entrepreneurs are no different than the rest of us, and I'm living proof of that"

"And yet, somehow, I've tapped into that entrepreneurial energy," she said. "Somehow, I've found it within me"

"The entrepreneurial mindset is not an abstract mindset change"

"Having to hustle switches on the entrepreneurial mindset"

"I loved the idea of starting my morning here"

"That was the first flame of entrepreneurship in me"

"All I had was a personal problem. I wanted a skinny latte every morning"

"I started. I got the flow going"

"Somehow, everything we didn't have clicked something on in my brain," Sahar said. "It made me problem solve the same way we problem solve outside—in a human way"

"A startup mindset is actually our only insurance policy in choppy waters"

"My motto in life is, 'leap and the net will appear"

"When you take the leap, something really powerful happens," Sahar said. "Your self-belief grows."

"It's never too early for this, and it's certainly never too late"

"One of my BIGGEST LEARNINGS across the years is that life isn’t just about MAKING MONEY – no one is a COIN MACHINE at their core"

"DISCOVERY is one of life’s GREAT JOYS and COMPARISON is a total WASTE OF TIME"

"I couldn’t understand why no one was having fun at work… I refused to accept that, these were meant to be the best years of my life"

"I was hit by a wave of freshly made coffee in the morning…I remember going to the bar and being asked ‘Soy cappuccino, latte, espresso?’ I fell in love with it"

"I was just like ‘Hang on Bobby, you’ve got me completely wrong, why doesn’t someone ELSE open a coffee bar for me to go to it? I didn’t see why I had to provide a solution to my own problem"

"I simply got an all-day tube pass for the circle line, and got off at every stop to see what they offered. It was disgusting filter coffee in polystyrene cups, and people were drinking it"

"I nearly died OD-ing on 26 espressos during a coffee tasting course – no one told us we had to spit them out, so Bobby and I just drank them all"

"Never let your ignorance stop you. You can teach yourself, and then you have the asset of a fresh perspective"

"We made our own coffee cups because no company knew how to make American-style coffee cups, no bakery knew how to make muffins"