Tatsachen hören nicht auf zu existieren, nur weil sie ignoriert werden.

Viele höchst erfolgreiche Menschen haben an der Harvard Universität studiert. Heißt das, dass Harvard eine gute Schule ist? Das wissen wir nicht. Vielleicht ist die Schule miserabel, aber sie rekrutiert die gescheitesten Menschen der ganzen Welt.

Menschen, die keinen MBA anstreben, sind ganz anders gestrickt als Menschen, die einen MBA anstreben. Der spätere Einkommensunterschied hat tausend andere Gründe als das MBA-Diplom.

Wenn Millionen Menschen eine Dummheit behaupten, wird sie deswegen nicht zur Wahrheit.

Die Sunk Cost Fallacy schnappt dann zu, wenn wir schon besonders viel Zeit, Geld, Energie, Liebe etc. investiert haben. Das investierte Geld wird dann zur Begründung weiterzumachen, selbst wenn es objektiv betrachtet keinen Sinn macht.

Rational entscheiden bedeutet, dass Sie die aufgelaufenen Kosten ignorieren. Egal, was sie bereits investiert haben, es zählt einzig das Jetzt und Ihre Entscheidung der Zukunft.

Wenn Sie jemanden überzeugen wollen, argumentieren Sie nicht mit einem möglichen Gewinn, sondern mit dem Vermeiden eines möglichen Verlustes.

I'm very pragmatic.

And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

I've never been on a water slide in my life.

I have been a muse to Mr. Saint-Laurent, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Versace.

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story.

Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

People like rules, or at least the appearance of rules, even in fantasy.

At the very least, noir offers an alternate reality - moments of real passion, a bleak code of honor, and a need for freedom amid corruption. At its best, noir offers a map of subversion.

It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life. It dehumanizes people and promotes murder. It can never be applied fairly.

I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my career and my personal life.

Where I come from, you don't really dance, you know. I think I was at the age, where, I suppose, I wanted to do what all me friends were doing. I gave up dancing for a while, and then I realised I wasn't as good at football as I thought I was.

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.

I won't try and combine training and a family.

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

Gays and lesbians are sick people. It's definitely a disease. They haven't invented a cure for it yet, but I hope they will.

What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

One of the truest tests of integrity is a blunt refusal to be compromised.

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.