There's no map to human behaviour.
The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower.
A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word 'BUT' which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative - before they tell you. Thus: 'I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but. . . (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).
John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties.
Ignore everything a politician says before the word but.
From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire will quickly eat up the small pieces but will not become strong enough to attack the large ones. You must supply a scale of sizes from the smallest to the largest. The human eye also will not make its way into a painting or building unless a continuum of shapes leads from the small to the large, from the large to the small.
A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
Its intuition that works. Just intuition. ""Waterstones was aimed at me. I knew that I wanted, and badly needed in my life, bookshops just like the ones I was creating. I simply assumed that plenty of other people, no doubt of wildly differing demographics, would find once they saw them that they wanted them too. Well - they did.
I believe that luck is opportunity meeting preparation.