To keep your resolve, surround yourself with those who want you to succeed. The brain cannot do its job of protecting the body without contact with other people.

We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.

If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.

Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.

To keep your resolve, surround yourself with those who want you to succeed. The brain cannot do its job of protecting the body without contact with other people.

This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our hearts, or intuition, another.

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.