I believe strongly that the first business plan you write should be for nobody but yourself, and you don’t need any special software to create it. You just need to answer four questions as honestly as you can: (1) What is the concept? (2) How are you going to market it? (3) How much do you think it will cost to produce and deliver what you’re selling? (4) What do you expect will happen when you actually go out and start making sales?

VINCENT VEGA AND MARSELLUS WALLACE'S WIFE

To succeed with deep work you must rewire your brain to be comfortable resisting distracting stimuli.

1. 'The power of principles is that they’re universal, timeless truths. If we understand and live our lives based on principles, we can quickly adapt; we can apply them anywhere.

I’m giving you these comments because I have very high expectations and I know that you can reach them.

When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he’s clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.

Throughout the Americas, diseases introduced with Europeans spread from tribe to tribe far in advance of the Europeans themselves, killing an estimated 95 percent of the pre- Columbian Native American population.

The Power of Context says that human beings are a lot more sensitive to their environment than they may seem.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Desirable difficulty is the hard work of doing hard work. Setting ourselves up for things that cause a struggle, because we know that after the struggle, we’ll be at a new level.