Don't look at the stranger and jump to conclusions. Look at the stranger's world. - Malcolm Gladwell

This is the real lesson of Blink: It is not enough simply to explore the hidden recesses of our unconscious. Once we know about how the mind works — and about the strengths and weaknesses of human judgment — it is our responsibility to act.

People are ruined by challenged economic lives. But they are ruined by wealth as well because they lose their ambition and they lose their pride and they lose their sense of self-worth

Extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity.