The power of knowing, in that first two seconds, is not a gift given magically to a fortunate few. It is an ability that we can all cultivate for ourselves.

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions.

Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action."(p.115)

Testers for 7-Up consistently found consumers would report more lemon flavor in their product if they added 15% more yellow coloring TO THE PACKAGE.

In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

You’re an immortal, divine being. A little god, and yet, you toil like a slave. Isn’t that hilarious?

A journey begins with a single step

Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.

Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practice it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school - and I'm still deferred.

I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.