People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.

There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

Success makes you less intimidated by things.

The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

The longings of the human heart are changeable and elusive. The good fortune we enjoy today may not be appreciated until it has been taken away and we have to fight and try to get it back (p.132)

For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.

Vibration can be shifted through the mastery of thought

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

I love Kelly Clarkson.

All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.

Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace.

Give credit to whom credit due.

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

Modeling is an industry that judges you purely by looks. Today you are on the top of your game and tomorrow a new face arrives and all eyes are on her. It happens every season.