Achievement is talent plus preparation

I don't want to be like the angry old guy in the corner who is always ranting and raving about the same things - but I don't mind doing that just a little bit!

It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.

So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.

A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

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.