Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.

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.

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?

People tend to overuse any idea or concept that delivers an emotional kick.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.

Example has more followers than reason.

Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.

Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.

In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer.

Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.

What's great is my parents aren't stuck in the '60s. My dad is so into the culture of today.