Ask "why" until there is no more "why. "
I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.
The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.
To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad - at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.
Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.
I'm not just a feminist - I'm a feminist plus.
We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized.
The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance
To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.