1. “Achievement is talent plus preparation .”
2. “There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.”
3. “Who we are cannot be separated from where we’re from.”
4. “Hard work is a prison sentence only if does not have meaning.”
5. “Arousal leaves us mind-blind.”
6. “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.”
7. “Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.”
8. “In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.”
9. “Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.”
10. “We need to look at the subtle the hidden and the unspoken.”
11. “Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.”
12. “When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.”
13. “We learn by example and by direct experience because there are limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.”
14. “Emotion is contagious.”
15. “The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.”
16. “What is learned out o necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily.”
17. “The right way to talk to strangers is with caution and humility.”
18. “Working really hard is what successful people do….”
19. “The world we could have is so richer than the world we have settled for.”
20. “You don’t manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.”
21. “Incompetence annoys me. Over confidence terrifies me.”
22. “Some pretend to be rich yet have nothing; others pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.”
23. “Education lays foundation of a large portion of the causes of mental disorder.”
24. “To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish.”
25. “We have come to confuse information with understanding.”
26. “Don’t look at the stranger and jump conclusions. Look at the stranger’s world.”
27. “Extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity.”
28. “Those who are successful at creating social epidemics do not just do what they think is right. They deliberately test their intuitions.”
29. “The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding.”
30. “Don’t depend on heaven for food, but on your own two hands carrying the load.”
