I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the history of the United States.
The easiest way to increase happiness is to control your use of time.
Spend some effort in figuring out why each decision did or did not pan out. Doing that systematically is key: really try to question the way you make decisions, and improve it.
Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.
Clearly, the decision-making that we rely on in society is fallible. It's highly fallible, and we should know that.
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.
Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.
Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed,Not all who fail have therefor worked in vain. There is no failure for the good and brave.
Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.
How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks of history. But they swung it. A recent poll tells us that one in two Americans now believe Saddam was responsible for the attack on the World Trade Centre.
Only he [Gordon Gekko] is a lot smarter than [Donald] Trump.