“The more pessimistic your explanatory style, the easier it is to slip into learned helplessness.”
“People think it’s easy to be cynical and pessimistic, but it’s incredibly hard work. It’s much easier to be hopeful.”
“When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.”
“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
“Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun--and neither can stop the march of events.”
“The Art of War is self-explanatory”