The powerful are not as powerful as they seem – nor the weak as weak
Don’t depend on heaven for food, but on your own two hands carrying the load.
The talent myth assumes that people make organizations smart. More often than not, it’s the other way around.
The powerful and the strong are not always what they seem.
The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding.
The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.
Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.
Owe no one anything except to love one another;
Of the three, the third trait—the idea that epidemics can rise or fall in one dramatic moment—is the most important, because it is the principle that makes sense of the first two and that permits the...
It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses — ever makes it alone.
It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success.
It is a strange thing, isn’t it, to have an educational philosophy that thinks of the other students in the classroom with your child as competitors for the attention of the teacher and not allies in...
If you make a decision about who is good and who is not good at an early age; if you separate the talented from the untalented; and if you provide the talented with a superior experience, then you’re...
I think when one's working, one works between absolute confidence and absolute doubt, and I got a huge dallop of each.
I mean, it’s ridiculous, Dhuey says. It’s outlandish that our arbitrary choice of cutoff dates is causing these long-lasting effects, and no one seems to care about them.
Greenberg wanted to give his pilots an alternate identity. Their problem was that they were trapped in roles dictated by the heavy weight of their country's cultural legacy. They needed an opportunity...
Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade...It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into some...
Eric Hanushek, an economist at Stanford, estimates that the students of a very bad teacher will learn, on average, half a year’s worth of material in one school year. The students in the class of a ve...
Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung. We make rules that f...
Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!