Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

We must create our own world or we will die from inaction

In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are overwhelmed by them -- those who can acquire skills and discipline their minds and those who are irrevocably distracted by all the media around them and can enver focus enough to learn.

If you're just letting the time pass at your job, it's just dead time and you'll never get it back. If at that job you're learning and you're observing and you're seeing about people and connections, it's suddenly alive time.

I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.

The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or whomever, are influenced by these books.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.