What’s broken, and how do we fix it?

The most basic way to get someone's attention is this: Break a pattern.

The first problem of communication is getting people's attention.

Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.

Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.

To make our communications more effective, we need to shift our thinking from "What information do I need to convey?" to "What questions do I want my audience to ask?

Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.

Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.

What’s working, and how can we do more of it?

The more we reduce the amount of information in an idea, the stickier it will be.

The more hooks an idea has, the better it will cling to memory.

The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.

Know your limit and circle of influence

All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.

There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.

Good deeds are seeds of generosity.

It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery.

Most of who we are is our deepest emotions, and someone who cannot feel those emotions in a positive way is never going to understand much about his fellow human beings.

I must say, I don't think there's any more challenging music out there in jazz than what we're doing.