Entertaining shouldn't be about showing off. It's all about making people feel comfortable and setting a stage for everyone to have a good time, make new friends, and have stimulating conversations....

Scarlett, when you are forty-five, perhaps you will know what I'm talking about and then perhaps you, too, will be tired of imitation gentry and shoddy manners and cheap emotions. But I doubt it. I...

Anything essential is invisible to the eye.

With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble the nettle! He added with a pause: There are no...

I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a...

She reminded herself that this was exactly the sort of perk that would justify moving away from the familiar life she'd grown to love

Superheroes work the hardest when things get tough.

He has added inches and fullness to his beard since his last visit. I'll say no more.

building healthy, satisfying relationships. What's more, it's critical for any relationship, romantic or otherwise. Thus, the core idea of this book is that, in order to become a "great listener," you...

A quiet conscience makes one strong!

Learn to take criticism seriously but not personally.

What I want does exist if I dare to find it.

He sees all kinds of sins in himself – and all kinds of accomplishments too – but he refuses to connect them with himself or his identity. So, although he knows himself to be the chief of sinners,...

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second - to - least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society...

I started a new page and wrote a title at the top: "Ten Ways to Defeat Macho Dickheadism." Then I realized that most of the world's problems stemmed from macho dickheadism, and if I could defeat that...

The point of providing these details is to emphasize that intelligent machines are complicated and hard to master. To join the group of those who can work well with these machines, therefore, requires...

I recommend the habit of a weekly review in which you make a plan for the workweek ahead {see Rule #4}. During my experiments with 4DX, I used a weekly review to look over my scoreboard to celebrate...

Strain, I now accepted, was good. Instead of seeing this discomfort as a sensation to avoid, I began to understand it the same way that a body builder understands muscle burn: a sign that you're doing...

Knowing what to do is the easy part. Finding the right person to do it with is a whole lot harder. - Josh Golden

Discipline was necessary, but unquestioning obedience was a limiting thing, not a growing one.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

His history is redeemed not in minutes but in lifetimes.

An inchoate ball of ambition, Julius knew that he had soon, soon, to find something to be ambitious for; otherwise he risked terminal resentment, from which there was no return.

Indeed, as the world becomes more interdependent and complex, it becomes more vital than ever to widen your aperture and to synthesize more perspectives. My

To embrace the essence of Essentialism requires we replace these false assumptions with three core truths: "I choose to," "Only a few things really matter," and "I can do anything but not everything."...

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward. That's a dangerous way to build a strategy.

One of the most common versions of this mistake that high-potential young professionals make is believing that investments in life can be sequenced.

To live a disciplined life is to live in such a way that you want only to be where God is with you. The more deeply you live your spiritual life, the easier it will be to discern the difference...