The Cinderella story is wired for weirdness, and you can see it in this movie.
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.
Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity. That's when the Curse of Knowledge kicks in, and we start to forget what it's like not to know what we know.
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.
Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.
The endurance athlete is the ultimate realist.
Get out from that kitchen and rattle those pots and pans. Well, roll my breakfast cause I'm a hungry man.
Most people who are rich chose their parents wisely.
The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth, his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind; and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him. But that is not our science.