Quotes of: Napoleon Keyword

I absolutely love my job. I feel so privileged: I get to travel the world, I get to witness history... and I'm constantly inspired by the different amazing characters I meet along the way.

Clarissa Ward

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in the million-and-two details about modern life that under different circumstances might send us into paroxysms of rage.

Tom Shales

Art can help a town by attracting a certain Bohemian population that adds life to the bars, character to the streets and a buzz to the name. Employers may then follow. But art can't do much if every town does it. There aren't enough Bohemians.

Evan Davis

I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life: it's a somewhat focused, limited terrain in which you write about everything.

Lawrence Weschler

Dorkdom isn't something you can choose. It's something you are. But instead of dividing the world up into dorkside and darkside, I've realised that we all have a little bit of dork inside us.

Adorkable

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

The Adventure of the Six Napoleons/The Adventure of the Crooked Man

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Until recently, 'the news' has meant to different things - events that are newsworthy, and events covered by the press.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.

How to Be a Woman

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

How to Be a Woman

The road was so dimly lighted. There we;re no highway signs to guide. But they made up their minds, If all roads were blind, They wouldn't give up 'til they died....

Infinity + One

We weren't so different, Finn and I. Cages come in lots of colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.

Infinity + One

The benefit of such horizontal interactions - people sharing knowledge across fields - is that it encourages conceptual blending, which is an extremely important part of the insight process.

Imagine: How Creativity Works

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

Imagine: How Creativity Works

In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to rely on.

Imagine: How Creativity Works

Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in." -Gabriel McGregor

Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the Game

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything