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.

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.

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

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

We can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.

What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.