“Very successful people are absurdly selective.”

“Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb a the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.”

“People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.”

“It is a great advantage for any man to be able to talk or hear, neither ignorantly nor absurdly, upon any subject; for I have known people, who have not said one word, hear ignorantly and absurdly; it has appeared by their inattentive and unmeaning faces.”

“Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.”

“Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.”

“Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside”

“People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.”

“People will selectively use “tradition” to justify anything.”

“To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.”