There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much be….

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the ….

It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people..

It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you ar….

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is me….

Arousal leaves us mind-blind..

The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families..

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….

The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent..

People can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part..

To build a better world we need to replace the patchwork of lucky breaks and arbitrary advantages today that determine success--the fortunate birth d….

So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of som….

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences..

You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face..

Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also….

Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are prod….

What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their behavior ….

That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't c….

Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first imp….

Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all..

A study at the University of Utah found that if you ask someone why he is friendly with someone else, he’ll say it is because he and his friend share….