In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday.

I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

Instead of thinking about talent as something that you acquire, talent should be thought of as something that you develop.

In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.

What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their behavior or beliefs in the face of the right kind of impetus.

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

If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too.