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

[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.

People are in one of two states in a relationship,” Gottman went on. “The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotion overrides irritability. It’s like a buffer. Their spouse will do something bad, and they’ll say, ‘Oh, he’s just in a crummy mood.’ Or they can be in negative sentiment override, so that even a relatively neutral thing that a partner says gets perceived as negative.

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

I would say first of all, anyone who wants to challenge the status quo always gets that response. Ninety percent of the time, that's just bull. That's just the way in which people choose to prop up their own privilege or their own particular position. So mostly I shrug it off.

It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.