Simple and infrequent – handle yourself. It’s faster to do these tasks by yourself than to explain them to someone else.

The Spaniards’ steel swords, lances, and daggers, strong sharp weapons that slaughtered thinly armored Indians. In contrast, Indian blunt clubs, while capable of battering and wounding Spaniards and their horses, rarely succeeded in killing them.

THE LAW OF CONNECTION - You can’t move to action unless you first move their hearts

Remove the word “but” from your vocabulary and substitute the word “and.

Jonathan’s group succeeds not because its members are smarter but because they are safer.

There is a perception out there that once people get out of college, they stop learning. Well I’ve learned a heck of a lot in my twenty years at Duke and I know I have more to learn.

The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn’t whether you will make them, it’s what you will do about them. It’s whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

So think less about what your habit can do for you, and more about how this new habit will help a person or people you care about.

In contrast, a domesticated animal is defined as an animal selectively bred in captivity and thereby modified from its wild ancestors, for use by humans who control the animal’s breeding and food supply.