There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.

I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy.

Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?

Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish

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

I don't like things that aren't true.

If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an enormous amount of influence over others. Some of us, after all, are very good at expressiing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us.