Without persistence, principles are meaningless. Because one day your dream may come true. And if you cannot keep that dream alive in the interim, th… - Malcolm Gladwell

Living a long life, the conventional wisdom at the time said, depended to a great extent on who we were — that is, our genes. It depended on the decisions we made — on what we chose to eat, and how much we chose to exercise, and how effectively we were treated by the medical system. No one was used to thinking about health in terms of community.

power has an important limitation. It has to be seen as legitimate, or else its use has the opposite of its intended effect.

George Bernard Shaw once put it: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.