One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies.

If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.

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.

Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.

...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)

People don't rise from nothing.

To become a chess grandmaster also seems to take about ten years. (Only the legendary Bobby Fisher got to that elite level in less than that amount of time: it took him nine years.) And what's ten years? Well, it's roughly how long it takes to put in ten thousand hours of hard practice. Ten thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.