Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is – is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?
As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.
You don’t manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.
No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.
When crime drops dramatically in New York for no apparent reason, or when a movie made on a shoestring budget ends up making hundreds of millions of dollars – we’re surprised. I’m saying, don’t be surprised. This is the way social epidemics work.
A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That’s one of the little-known facts.
It’s very hard to find someone who’s successful and dislikes what they do.
If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can’t need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?
Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.
It’s as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.
There’s no idea that can’t be explained to a thoughtful 14-year-old. If the thoughtful 14-year-old doesn’t get it, it is your fault, not the 14-year-old’s.
Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making – it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking.
Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They’d have nothing to blog about.
The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.
It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research.
That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.
People who are busy doing things – as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops -don’t have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them.
Where they come from matters. They’re products of particular places and environments.
Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push – in just the right place – it can be tipped.