By Nature, I Am Not An Optimist,

If You Are Not Prepared To Resign Or Be Fired For What You Believe In, Then You Are Not A Worker, Let Alone A Professional. You Are A Slave.

Knowledge Is Not The Same As Morality, But We Need To Understand If We Are To Avoid Past Mistakes And Move In Productive Directions. An Important Part Of That Understanding Is Knowing Who We Are And What We Can Do... Ultimately, We Must Synthesize Our Understandings For Ourselves.

If I Know You're Very Good In Music, I Can Predict With Just About Zero Accuracy Whether You're Going To Be Good Or Bad In Other Things.

'til 1983, I Wrote Primarily For Other Psychologists And Expected That They Would Be The Principal Audience For My Book.

We Should Spend Less Time Ranking Children And More Time Helping Them To Identify Their Natural Competencies And Gifts And Cultivate These. There Are Hundreds And Hundreds Of Ways To Succeed And Many, Many Different Abilities That Will Help You Get There.