"It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry — if they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and persevere, how… - Jonah Lehrer

Intimacy is made possible by history, for the feeling of love is as much a memory as it is an experience.

...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

"the problem with statistics is that they
don't activate our moral emotions. The depressing numbers leave
us cold: our minds can't comprehend suffering on such a massive
scale. This is why we are riveted when one child falls down a
well but turn a blind eye to the millions of people who die every
year for lack of clean water. And why we donate thousands of
dollars to help a single African war orphan featured on the cover
of a magazine but ignore widespread genocides in Rwanda and
Darfur. As Mother Teresa put it, "If I look at the mass, I will
never act. If I look at the one, I will