Most analysts are SO SMART and have amazing ideas, but they can't convey their genius ideas to others.

The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.

The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.

Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.

Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.

To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?

Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.

Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.

What’s working, and how can we do more of it?

The more we reduce the amount of information in an idea, the stickier it will be.

The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory.

It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

Kant thinks that a free will is a will under moral laws and that freedom and the moral law are distinct thoughts that reciprocally imply each other. Fichte thinks they are the same thought.

Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don't just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn't have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.

Scent is very important. Strong fragrances suit some men, while citrus types suit others. I like my men to smell fresh and woody, but also like a man.

Pa gen lape nan tet, si pa gen lape nan vant (there is no peace in the head if there is no peace in the stomach).

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.

I just want to write. It's like once I get those obsessive thoughts out of my head, once they're written down, they're somehow set free and I can move on.

Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation.

The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.