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.

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

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.

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

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.

The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness".

Meggie thought this first whisper sounded a little different from one book to another, depending on weather or not she already knew the story it was going to tell her.

Not what we have but what we use not what we see but what we choose-these are the things that mar or bless human happiness.

It’s nice enough to make a man weep, but I don’t weep, do you?

The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

Pain and suffering only occur in temporal time. They don't occur in the world of forever. They only occur in limited transient time, which is a state of mind.

Do you know what my father used to say?" I ask her. "He used to say that songs had a heart. A crescendo that can make all your blood rush from your head to your toes.

Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

You've got to keep reminding yourself of what's important.