Quotes

Let's pick the one in a hundred most aggressive person from the random population. Well, they are all men. And that's why all the people in prison are men

When you check off something major, celebrate! Celebrate your achievements. Live it up! Have a party when you reach something you've worked for for a while

You should treat yourself as if you are valuable, especially in potential. But you should concentrate on who you should become, especially if you are young

Learn to measure progress! Once you've set up a project, now you want to turn nothing into something, now you must measure your progress. How are you doing?

A rose on time is more valuable than a thousand dollar gift too late. It's not the amount that counts, it's the genius that counts. It's the ideas that count

sometimes it's going to hail on your crop and rain on your parade so got to get ready for that or you will be naive. That's just part of the life arrangement

I found out you can’t change people. They can change themselves, but you can’t change them. Lord knows some I’ve tried. People have to change themselves

If you know that you're the one that can transcend your problems most fundamentally then you have the faith that would enable you to take stock of who you are

Make sure you get the information. What you think about it that's up to you. What you're going to do with it that'll soon be up to you but make sure you get it

Words are a virus

You don't know what the hell is coming at you when you let something new inside the dominance hierarchy, whether it's an idea or a disease.
Words are a virus!

It's extremely useful to represent the phenomenology of your experience as a domain of chaos and order. That works for every single environment for every person

As the societies get more egalitarian the differences between men and women get bigger. You make the societies more egalitarian men and women get more different

Sowing and reaping

If you sow bad you reap bad. If you plant thistle seeds you don't get pumpkins.
If you sow good you reap good. If you plant pumpkin seeds you don't get thistles

Timid approach to life

Some people never will have much, they're too cautious. You can also be too reckless but you can also be too cautious. This is called "the timid approach to life"

You want to lay your life out so that it's providing you what you need to not be bitter and to work for your best interests and for the interests of everyone else

Power in a hierarchy is the right way to be. Human hierarchies are very complex and that the way that you win human hierarchy is by being competent and reciprocal

Nourish and give life like a mother ...

Nourish and give life like a mother, protect and defend like a father;
Give life like a mother, take life like a father;
Love like a mother, hate like a father

You decide what goes into your mental factory. Don't let anybody just dump anything they want to in your mental factory because you've got to live with the results

Go to work on yourself harder than you work on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you could make a fortune

Power of negotiation

The consequence of not talking is that you fight. That's the end game. Because the only way you can stop from fighting with other people is by negotiating with them

Write down uncertain things

If people write about uncertain things, past, present or future, so they can be traumatic things, they can be uncertain things, their physical health will be improved

Discipline - major step to human progress. If there is one thing to get excited over - that's it. Get excited over your ability to make yourself do the necessary things

People can improve themselves I think to a degree that we don't understand. Because a human being for better or worse is something potential as well as something actual

Low IQ is good predictor of poverty

Low IQ is good predictor of poverty. If you are less cognitively gifted, and you have children, they are going to be in a less enriched environment. These things spiral