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It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.
Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do.
The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.
Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research.
If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.
When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.
Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.
If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.
One of the things I think the police have to do is to stop behaving like armies.
The sad thing about doping is how much it obscures our appreciation of greatness.
There are lots of issues more important than where billionaires donate their money.
There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.
Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.
Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard.
We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair
The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.
When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
Television allows the audience to argue with the creator in a way you don't in a movie.
A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.
Since becoming a journalist, each time I engage with subjects I become more radicalized.
When it's easy to make money, you have no incentive to think about development of talent.
Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.
If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders.
The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.
People can't do much about the fate part, but we can certainly do a lot about the man part.
Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
Through embracing the diversity of humans beings, we will find a sure way to true happiness.
The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.
I'm necessarily parasitic in a way. I have done well as a parasite. But I'm still a parasite.
I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.
When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted.
Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"
The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.
The Law of the Few... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.
Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.
The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.
A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.
We have the kind of self-made-man myth, which says that super-successful people did it themselves.
The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily.
Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.
Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.
People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.
Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.
When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave.
Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
That was it! The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else.