Outliers are those who have been given opportunities—and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.
Minor, seemingly insignificant quality-of-life crimes, they said, were Tipping Points for violent crime.
It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality of governments,
If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.
I think overall it’s a disadvantage, Jeb Bush once said of what it meant for his business career that he was the son of an American president and the brother of an American president and the grandson...
Gottman has found, in fact, that the presence of contempt in a marriage can even predict such things as how many colds a husband or a wife gets; in other words, having someone you love express contemp...
As the playwright George Bernard Shaw once put it: The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends...
A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.
If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)
The tallest oak in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn; it is the tallest also because no other trees blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich,...
Is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily.
When we talk about analytic versus intuitive decision making, neither is good or bad. What is bad is if you use either of them in an inappropriate circumstance.
When we see the giant, why do we automatically assume the battle is his for the winning?
What is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily.
What Jaffe proved was that the powerful have to worry about how others think of them-that those who give orders are acutely vulnerable to the opinions of those whom they are ordering about.
We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.
We have a definition in our heads of what an advantage is—and the definition isn’t right. And what happens as a result? It means that we make mistakes.
To play by David’s rules you have to be desperate. You have to be so bad that you have no choice.
