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"Starling Bank founder Anne Boden says new book ‘isn’t a memoir’,2 November 2020"

"Visionary Art’s roots can be traced back to the Fantastic Realist movement of Vienna, & Ernst Fuchs. A few years back, I was lucky enough to assist him painting, he’s very old now. Back in the day there was him, Salvador Dali & Matti Klarwein, wild eccentric surrealist artists hanging out. Matti Klarwein created those incredible album covers for Santana. Absolutely mind-blowing masterpiece oil paintings each one."

"I was super exited have the opportunity to experience live painting the triple goddess to Tristan’s set at Boom. It was incredible, it felt like we were all collectively with the crowd creating a spiral of positive energy swirling into space. It occured to me that most Trance Dance floors are built in the shape of a Torus, which is a template for the future renewable flow of energy according to the movie Thrive. Felt like we were co-creating magic."

"archetype Tristan can totally rock, those arms in the air peak moments at a blinding gig! He blasts into the painting in a flaming comet, a Ganesha shaped chariot, & is also held within in the feminine head of Sophia, creatrix of the universe. When we align with this power we have the power to create our lives. Ever feel like that on a dance floor?"

"The idea was to sum up the entire Way of Life of Trance music, from the Goa trance scene to festivals like Boom, Ozora & Burning man, with the influence of ancient cultures, future tech, & alien contact thrown in for good measure!"

"No matter what I’m doing, I’m in the people business. You do not become a CEO on your own"

"If you unite amazing people and achieve amazing results, eventually those above you will want to know the leader who enabled those results"

"When leaders invest holistically in people, that investment sends the message that “my leader cares."

"Life is about choices. I keep the end goal in mind and choose to live a life of balance."

"I remind myself that I have a bigger boss that I’m accountable to every minute of my life."

"If you want to accomplish your dream, the dream must stay consistent. You can’t go after a different dream every day"

"I was brought up to challenge myself, to try to be successful on my own terms. I was brought up to be focused. So I see myself as more fully engaged than ever before"

"I do not use brute force in my management style. I use my strategic abilities. I work hard to create a team environment. It’s extremely important for a leader to empower others in driving the success of the organization. I emphasize how essential it is to be nimble and always resourceful."

"My mother always emphasized that we should be able to hold a conversation on any topic for at least five minutes. This reinforced the value of knowledge and intellectual curiosity in us"

"Don't get discouraged, and don't let other people define your potential. In high school, when I told my guidance counselor that I wanted to apply to Harvard, she said that was an unrealistic expectation. My parents and others encouraged me to apply anyway, and I became the first person from my high school to ever attend Harvard. So hold onto your dreams, even when others try to diminish them. And think big"

"A very people-intensive profession. You spend a lot of time rolling up your sleeves to help other people solve a problem. I find that very satisfying, both intellectually and emotionally." It's also rewarding"

"when you can take things you learn in a business environment and apply them in a pro-bono context"

"Our efforts involve reaching out to people,", "making sure that they know who we are, and that we're interested in them"

"One of the things you have to trade off is how much time you're going to have for personal thing"

"“Don’t let other people’s diminished expectations for you be the truth about your life,”"

"“There’s no question that there are barriers, people who are going to try to make us feel badly about our prospects, people who are going to say it’s not a glass ceiling, it’s a concrete ceiling and you’re never going to overcome it, you’re never going to get there,”"

"“Should you even consider taking risks in an environment where the economy might be slowing down? Throughout my career, I’ve found it very important to have a mindset that says I have to keep taking chances, because that’s how you learn, that’s how you develop and that’s how you grow,”"

"“Even though the economy is more challenging, it’s still going to reward people who are creative and innovative and have vision.”"

"“I thought that it was really important, after having done the same thing for ten years, to take a risk and put myself in a situation that was going to be important for the future. Understanding how Internet companies work and what it takes to manage them and what it takes to make them profitable is going to be a critical skill for managers going forward … While it can be frustrating and difficult, it’s a wonderful thing to shake up your career and try something different,”"

"“Wherever you are in your career, you have to become an expert at something pretty quickly. Being a generalist and being a smart person is not going to get you where you need to go,”"

"“It’s very important to have a mentor who can help you understand the unwritten rules of the company. Try to find three or four people who can look out for you in different ways.”"

"“Think about hiring people who push you. It’s important that you create an environment among people that says we’re all trying to be better, we can all learn from each other, we can all inspire each other""

"“Think about the other side of your brain, the side that’s not about business, the side that is more creative … Through my characters, I can explore issues about women, race, ethnicity and all kinds of interesting things in a completely different way. But also, [writing] is fun.”"

"“The secret to success is being nimble, and light on your feet,”"

"“Most of my pivots come through conversations,” she said. “Maybe it is because they are giving voice to something I have already been thinking about.”"

"“Everyone who has achieved something, there have been times when they did not know if they could do it, and there were definitely times when people told them they could not do it,”"

"“It is really important to have people around you, family, friends, or someone in your life, who can back you up against the naysayers.”"

"“You have so much more agency than you realise. There will always be people saying you can’t do this, you are too old or too young, but you have a lot of power if you choose to own it.”"

"Consulting is an excellent way to learn management and strategy skills,"

"“I came out late, but it has always been my intention to make up for lost time”"

"“It wasn’t about them choosing me, it was really about me choosing them. Because they needed my street cred; they needed someone that was going to come in and tell them the truth.”"

"“Now you see an attempt to undo, erase, or whitewash what Virginians sent the Democratic Party to do in November 2019. I think that is what you see now. For example, now we see anti-equity legislation with coded language…”"

"“We desperately need genuine diversity, equity, and inclusion to allow many of us to access ‘opportunity.’ That’s why it’s so important people understand there’s a return on investment for it.”"

"“The world is bending towards more diversity, equity, and inclusion. So, if Virginia wants to remain competitive across all those sectors, we’ve got to continue the work of One Virginia.”"

"“I think a lot of the work was realized and you know you can’t change 400 years of inequity in two, three years, but we were able to get so much done that in my mind it’s going to be difficult to completely undo it.”"

"“We didn’t come to play any games…We came to save lives in the middle of a pandemic as well as drive reform.”"

"“ This is where we didn’t get it right. Because there’s such a fragility about this work – and a lot of people don’t understand what they don’t understand. The bottom line is most of us don’t know how to talk about this work; we don’t know how to educate others on why we do the work”"

"“We didn’t talk about it, we did not help people or educate people on how to be ambassadors for this work, or how to understand it from a larger systemic lens. And so our work was vulnerable to attacks and weaponization…it was almost like there was a fear, well we can’t talk about it because we’re in the middle of a gubernatorial election.”"

"“Most people outside of the state government bubble, like the suburban soccer mom, didn’t know about the One Virginia mission or online tool kit, which has now been completely erased from the internet. ONE Virginia was about bringing us together, making Virginia work better for all of us…and was not about division.”"

"“I call it a Monster Minority Machine…because these folks leading these tirades are NOT the majority of voices in Virginia, but they are the loudest. In fact, the majority of the voices in Virginia are demanding MORE African American history taught in schools.”"

"“In 2021, many of the majority of these voices were drowned out by the monster minority machine that showed up yelling, screaming, and accusing, and in some case threatening violence. So the result was the reasonably minded majority that also wanted choice, equity, and opportunity for their children and families, were reticent to voice their concerns.”"

"“…there’s the now defunct ideology, “if you’re explaining you’re already losing.” Well guess what, we lost anyway by NOT explaining…You’ve got to be able to define critical race theory and use it in a sentence, just like in third grade”"

"“…because of all of our incomplete knowledge of race and racism, it was like, well, let me just give this tall and somewhat attractive guy in a red vest a chance – he seems harmless.”"

"“…you move two steps forward, you come ten steps back…it happened in Reconstruction and after the election of President Obama. But it also happens with people in power feel threatened.”"

"“…the only thing that gets covered in the media is the sensational hot sexy stuff like, you know like, Robert E. Lee coming down to Richmond or at the U.S. Capitol…The only thing most of the press was interested in was talking about Ralph Northam’s yearbook photo, Robert E. Lee coming down in Richmond, and what was in the time capsule, right?”"