Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."(p.115)

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions.

The power of knowing, in that first two seconds, is not a gift given magically to a fortunate few. It is an ability that we can all cultivate for ourselves.

Testers for 7-Up consistently found consumers would report more lemon flavor in their product if they added 15% more yellow coloring TO THE PACKAGE.

In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

Happiness is a state of mind, not the condition we find.

Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

Love insists the loved loves back

Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

I'm Michael Jackson-obsessed. All I watch is 'Moonwalker' - it's my favorite movie of all time.

Many dedicated endurance athletes don’t need to be told what to do – they need to be told what not to do.

Annika's my role model, and I wish in the future I could be like her.