It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!
As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.
It really scares me, the idea of keeping on growing and becoming more well-known. I don't like how my life has changed in some ways.
We know that diversity can sometimes be more uncomfortable because things are less familiar - but it gets the best results.
Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.
I was a chubby kid, an outsider, and then all of a sudden I shot up to 6 foot 2, and people started calling me handsome. I couldn't accept it; I couldn't see it.
What was weird for me after 'Amelie' was how people look at you. It moves all your relationships and sometimes even your intimate ones, and you don't understand why suddenly everything around you changes, because you are exactly the same person.
The web attacks traditional ways of doing things and elites, and this is very uncomfortable for traditional businesses to deal with.