Achievement is talent plus preparation

If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.

Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way that your eyes don't affect your judgement. The only true way to listen is with your ears and your heart. (p.251)

I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome.

Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

Why are man hole covers around?" If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft