There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

If you're in business it's both a promise and a warning. It says that sometimes little things can cause some little guy to have an overnight success.

Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.

The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from the unconscious - from behind a locked door inside of our brain - but just because something is outside of awareness doesn't mean it's outside of control.

Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant.

We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push - in just the right place - it can be tipped.