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

It's not about how smart you are. It's about your values.

The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon section, is what the psychologist Robert Sternberg calls "practical intelligence." To Sternberg, practical intelligence includes things like "knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for for maximum effect.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"

We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair

Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if there are no books on biology in your library, and the library is never open, your drive is meaningless.