If you are trying to get information across to someone, your ability to create a compelling introduction may be the most important single factor in the later success of your mission.

Public speaking professionals say that you win or lose the battle to hold your audience in the first 30 seconds of a given presentation.

The more personal an example, the more richly it becomes encoded and the more readily it is remembered.

The more handles one creates at the moment of learning, the more likely the information is to be assessed at a later date. The handles we can add revolve around content, timing, and environment.

WE DO NOT SEE with our eyes. We see with our brains.

The brain pays more attention to the gist than to the peripheral details of an emotionally charged experience...present information in a logically organized, hierarchical structure.

The brain cannot multitask...The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time...This attentional ability is, to put it bluntly, not capable of multitasking.

He has a traditional shopper's DNA, an eye for freshness and appearance, and a consistent sense of a home to go back to.

Dating isn't a natural need

Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.

I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.

I cannot be what I am not.

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.