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

Change your mind about something significant every day.

In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.