We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.

The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.

Mindfulness promises a great number of desirable benefits, and is based on much more solid research than many competing ideas on how to change people.

When business leaders talk about the next quarter, they ought to sometimes be talking about the next quarter century.

The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their “gut” when they should be more rational.

Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".

Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.

Compared to ecosystems and some species, corporations are very fragile entities indeed.

Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.

Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

Challenge who you can be, don't let fate control your future.

... isn't breaking a supervillian out of jail a little ... much?

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes

There are so many third-rate people now who are more famous than people who should be famous, but sometimes people who could or should be famous are very boring, too.

I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.

He was the only boy I'd found worth dating in God knows how many schools. I mean, ever since he'd been bitten by a werwulf he'd been rock-steady. The best thing about this totally effed-up situation.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.