Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart.

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.

Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.

If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers.