So long as the stereotype is used as a way of understanding how to fix the problem as opposed to demonizing a people or writing them off, then I think it's OK.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

Working really hard is what successful people do.

As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.

Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related traits, and it only seems that way because of a glitch in the way our brains are organized. Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.

[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.