if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition

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 are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And most of all, we become much too passive. 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.

The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.

Visionaries are limited by their visions.

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.