#Bill Schwartz the Science Guy

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BLAKE: Thanks, Bubbles. I tell myself every year to not take the greeting personally. It only happens to me, like, two or five times a year… and then closer to the date, hearing it, I explode.

BUBBLES: Just take it one moment at a time, honey. It’s all anyone can do.

Caption: Last August; referencing book #10…

BILL SCHWARTZ: Wild, we’ve done all we could, but I’m afraid Simonla’s internal injury was too much… I’m sorry.

Caption: Meanwhile…

DOCTOR A: !

DOCTOR B: Unbelievable! Her heartbeat is restablizing!

SIMONLA {thought}: I am loved! I am needed! I am a warrior!!!

Caption: Later…

DOCTOR A: Her bloodwork and DNA show that her skeletal structure is composed of a metal similar to adamantium; stronger, even! It is… simitanium!

DOCTOR A: And what’s more, simitanium also streams in the blood and organs. She can regenerate her own organs and bones! But, she still needs time to heal. We’ll keep her here for further observation and recovery.

Blake tells Bubbles that people tell him “Happy Kwanzaa” about two to five times a year, which is hilarious. He also implies that people tell him “Happy Kwanzaa” a while before actual Kwanzaa, which is also hilarious.

On the lower two thirds of this page, we are shown the long teased revival of Simonla. Just as Bill leaves the ER to tell Wild the bad news, Simonla suddenly stabilizes, due to her inner fortitude. The first panel is presumably Chris’s justification for why, even in the retconned ending, Simonla is still said to have been killed. Even in the retconned ending, the Asperpedia Four are still arrested and tried for murder, even though as Simonla survived they should have been tried for attempted murder. 

This retconning justifies Simonla’s survival by saying she has a skeleton made of “simitanium”, which is directly compared to “adamantium”. Adamantium is a fictional metal featured only in the Marvel comics, most notably being what Wolverine’s claws and skeletons are made of. Adamantium is an alloy of steel and the equally-fictional Vibranium (that stuff from Black Panther) and it is in the comics the strongest substance known to man. “Simitanium”, which is Chris’s invention, is apparently even stronger. I can’t strongly trace the etymology of “Simitanium” - a Simultanium, which is the only thing that comes up when you search of “Simitanium”, is a church that people of multiple Christian denominations can use as a house of worship, I think we can safely strike that off the possible etymologies. My best guess is that it’s “Sim-”, as in simulated, plus “-itanium”, as in titanium. This name, simulated titanium, doesn’t exactly scream “strong” to me - Adamantium is said to be stronger than titanium, and “simulated” titanium makes it sound like it’s an alloy or something that’s meant to simulate titanium - as in, it’s not titanium but it’s comparably strong and could substitute for titanium, and would thus not be stronger than Adamantium.

Simitanium also flows through her bloodstream, allowing her to repair her body. Adamantium cannot do this in any version of the story - the primary appeal of Adamantium is its indestructibility, and has never been stated to be some sort of magical healing metal. Perhaps this is what differentiates Simitanium from Adamantium?

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Masterlist

A list of my old writing that you can request I revise

Song Prompts

Meeting and Dating Headcanons~

Pretty in Pink

Andie Walsh

Duckie Dale

Blane McDonagh

Steff McKee

Sixteen Candles 

Jake Ryan

The Lost Boys

Paul

Dwayne

Poly Lost Boys

Edgar Frog

The Breakfast Club

Brian Johnson

John Bender

Andrew Clark

The Outsiders

Sodapop Curtis

Dallas Winston

Two-Bit Mathews

Rumblefish

Steve Hays

Ferris Buellers Day Off

Cameron Frye

Karate Kid

Daniel Larusso

Johnny Lawrence

Dutch

Heathers

Veronica Sawyer

Jason Dean

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Jeff Spicoli

Brad Hamilton

Better Off Dead 

Lane Meyer

Weird Science

Gary Wallace

Wyatt Donnelly

Dream A Little Dream

Dinger Holfield

Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure

Bill S. Preston Esquire

Ted Logan 

Dating Poly Bill and Ted 

The Princess Bride

Inigo Montoya

Interview with the Vampire

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Children of the Corn

Malachai Boardman

National Lampoons 

Rusty Griswold (European Vacation)

Cant Buy Me Love

Kenneth Wurman

The Chocolate War

Jerry Renault

Archie Costello

The Mighty Ducks

Fulton Reed

Dean Portman

Adam Banks

Les Averman

Porkys

Brian Schwartz

Anthony ‘Meat’ Tuperello

Tommy Turner

Tim Cavanaugh

Mickey Jarvis

Just One of the Guys

Terry Griffith

Greg Tolan

Dead Poets Society 

Neil Perry

Todd Anderson

Charlie Dalton

Knox Overstreet

Steven Meeks

Earth Girls are Easy

Mac

Combat Academy 

Perry Barnett

Waynes World

Garth Algar

Austin Powers

Austin Powers

Toy Soldiers

Ricardo Montoya

Good Will Hunting

Chuckie Sullivan

10 Things I Hate About You

Joey Donner

My Bodyguard

Ricky Linderman

Melvin Moody

Stand and Deliver

Angel Guzman

Something Wild 

Ray Sinclair

Three O’Clock High 

Buddy Revell

Intruder

Randy

Young Guns

Jose Chavez y Chavez

Billy the Kid

Doc Scurlock

Dazed and Confused

Benny O’Donnell

Don Dawson

Kevin Pickford

Randall “Pink” Floyd

Fred O’Bannion

Mitch Kramer

Ron Slater

Shavonne Wright

Dogfight

Eddie Birdlace

Ladybugs

Matthew

Goosebumps

Sticks

Freddy Renfield

Twister

Robert ‘Rabbit’ Nurick

Stand by me 

Ace Merrill

School Ties

Rip Van Kelt 

Chris Reece

The Untouchables

Eliot Ness

The Godfather

Tom Hagen

(Young) Vito Corleone

(Old) Vito Corleone

Goodfellas

Henry Hill

Little Shop of Horrors

Seymour Krelborn

Newsies

Specs

Near Dark

Severen

Friday the 13th

Jason Voorhees

Scream

Billy Loomis 

Poly Billy and  Stu

Stu Macher

The Craft

Nancy Downs

Hocus Pocus

Max Dennison

Thackery Binx

Beetlejuice

Lydia Deetz

Adam Maitland

The Crow

Eric Draven

Ghostbusters

Ray Stantz

Aliens

Bishop

An American Werewolf in London

Jack Goodman

Sleepaway Camp

Ricky Thomas

Re-animator

Herbert West

Silence of the Lambs

Clarice Starling

Fright Night

Jerry Dandridge

Candyman

Daniel Robitaille

The Evil Dead

Ash Williams

Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Harvey Kinkle

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Spike

Full Metal Jacket

Sgt. Hartman

Joker

Animal Mother

Pyle

Preference~ the boys with an s/o whose ex stalks them

Grease

Kenickie

Labyrinth

Jareth

Total Recall

Douglas Quaid

Requested “Would Includes” and Imagines/Fics~

Darry falling for Johnny’s sister

Allison Reynolds dating a shy nerdy girl

Starting a family with Cameron Frye

Making out with Cameron Frye

Cameron Frye comforting you when you’re upset

Getting drunk with the Ferris Bueller crew

Gary Wallace dating a tall girl

George Mcfly with a dominant flirty s/o

Comforting and being comforted by Will Hunting

Will Hunting having a crush on you

Being apart of the good will hunting gang

Armand with a virgin s/o (including nsfw)

Lestat and Louis dating a girl who loves horror movies

Making out with Duckie Dale

Duckie Dale cheering you up

Cliff having a crush on you

Making out with Cliff

Making out with Bryce

Bryce having a crush on you

The Lost Boys with an s/o having an anxiety attack + fighting depression

The Lost Boys with a sweet and innocent s/o

The Lost Boys with a curvy mate

The Lost Boys fighting with their mates

The Lost Boys dating a shy short girl

The Lost Boys taking care of you when you’re hurt

Getting drunk with the Lost Boys would include

David x Laddies older sister

Making out with Edgar Frog

Being Married to Archie Costello

Going to the beach with Archie Costello

Making out with Archie Costello

Darrys girlfriend landing a job at a local cafe as a singer

Making out with Kenneth Wurman

Being Cindys friend and Ronalds crush

Harold Sherbico having a crush

Kim Kelly dating her polar opposite

Neil Perry dating an artist

Making out with Charlie Dalton

Jealous Charlie Dalton

Jealous Knox Overstreet

A study date with Steven Meeks

Spending the winter season with Neil Perry

Comforting Charlie Dalton after he gets expelled 

The dead poets walking in on Charlie and his secret, shy girlfriend 

Simon Boggs having a crush on Laneys friend

Faking It-Cindy Mancini falling for the girl who paid her to be her friend

Spike having a crush on you

Steff McKee having a crush on you

Marko having a crush on you

David having a crush on you 

Paul having a crush on you

Dwayne having a crush on you

Dwayne x vampire reader who dresses like Stevie Nicks

Making out with Keith Nelson

Meat having a crush on Peewees sister

Admit it- Mickey Jarvis and his future s/o having crushes on each other

Being a part of team USA and meeting Adam and Charlie

Dwayne Robertson having a crush on you

Sleepover with Bill and Ted (including nsfw)

Being pregnant with Ted Logans child

Starring in the schools Romeo and Juliet with Ted Logan

Ted Logan asking you to be his valentine

Spending Valentines day with Steff McKee

Spending Valentines day with Steven Meeks

Spending Valentines day with Keith Nelson

Spending your first Valentines day with Bryce

Wishing I Was Her (Nick Andopolis)

If You Want Out Just Say It (Ace Merrill)

Going on the Ferris adventure

Going on your own adventure with Cameron Frye

Making out with Randall ‘Pink’ Floyd

Travelling back in time with Marty McFly

Tommy Devito dating a chubby artist

Years Gone By (Michael Corleone)

Sonny Corleone dating his opposite

Phillipe Gaston x reader~ Fairy Tale 

Being Fulton's sister and Dating Dean Portman

Comforting Todd when he’s upset

Being married to Bill S. Preston Esquire

Being married to Ted Logan

Spending Halloween/October with Knox Overstreet

Making out with Knox

A will they, won’t they relationship with Seth Brundle

Falling in love with Edward Scissorhands

Dwayne Hicks with an Android!Technician s/o

Private Joker dating an artist 

Jareth falling in love with you

Being married to Matt Hooper and going to Amity

The way you make me feel~ John Bender

Being in a long term relationship with JD

J.D. with a chronically ill s/o

Archie with a chronically ill s/o

Making out with Ted Logan

Archibald Craven falling in love

Andy Dufresne falling in love

Nsfw Headcanons~ 

Group sex with the lost boys

Sam Emerson

Threesome with Obie and Archie

Armand

Archie Costello

(sub) Archie Costello

Obie

Johnny Cade

Cameron Frye

Duckie Dale

Blane

John Bender

Randy (Intruder)

Joey Donner

Kenneth Wurman

Keith Nelson

The Dead Poets Kinks

Knox Overstreet

Charlie Dalton

Steven Meeks

Todd Anderson

Neil Perry

Gerard Pitts

John Bender taking your virginity

Louis de Pointe du Lac

Dinger Holfield

The Lost Boys

JD

Randall ‘Pink’ Floyd

Benny O’donnell

Fred O’Bannion

Cliff

Bryce

Johnny Walker

George Mcfly

Brian Moreland

(sub) Perry Barnett 

Bill S. Preston Esquire

Ted Logan

Randy Meeks

Michael Emerson

Nancy Downs

Ray Stantz

Egon Spengler

Spike

Angel Guzman

Sgt. Hartman

Brad Hamilton

Douglas Quaid

Chris (night of the creeps)

Sonny Corleone with a shy, virgin s/o

George Mcfly getting jealous and being dominant

Grease Monkey (Keith Nelson smut)

Sins of the flesh and matters of the heart (David x reader + Dwayne smut)

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Four Questions with Garielle Lutz:

I’m extremely beholden to Garielle who took the time to respond to my silly, garbled, childish, intrusive questions. You can purchase her latest book Worsted here and here, among many other sites.  --------- Q.  You've attributed the resuscitation of your literary career in quite considerable measure to your teacher and editor Gordon Lish. It seems like you guys are particularly close, even as you seem to have largely confined yourself to Pittsburgh(mostly driven by your erstwhile teaching career but also by your liking the city over time). How does it feel to hear someone like Gordon speak so highly of you, “I think there’s more truth in one sentence of my student [Lutz] than in all of [Philip] Roth. Lutz gives [herself] away. “The speaking subject gives herself away,” says Julia Kristeva. I thoroughly believe that. What you see in Lutz, [her] lavish gift, is [her] refusal to relax [her] determination to uncover and uncover. It is, by my lights, quite wonderful, quite terrific.[…]Lutz is entirely the real thing?” Does one feel vindicated? How do you navigate the waters of self-effacement and self-indulgence as a writer and as a person? A.  I haven’t had a literary career before or after studying with Gordon Lish.  I don’t think one finds one’s way to him in hopes of launching a career.  Anyone with vulgar ambition along those lines would have been shown the door pretty quick.  I would never presume to be close to Gordon or to feel that I am part of his life other than in my role as a student. He dwells in another realm entirely. I attended his classes and tried to grasp, to the best of my abilities, the things he was saying about how to get from one word to the next.  He also talked about how to free a word from the constricting range of its permissible behaviors, how to drain it of every sepsis of received meaning, until there is nothing left of the word but the skeleton of its former self, just the lank, gawky letters sticking out this way and that, and then how to fill the thing up again, to the point of overspilling, but this time with something that would never have been allowed to belong in there before, and then see whether the word, now close to bursting, can hold up and maybe have a new kind of say.  I’m always surprised and relieved whenever Gordon says anything approving about anything I write.  I think that for a lot of his students, his opinion is the only one that counts.  

Q.  You've said, "A typical day goes like this: noon, afternoon, evening, night, additional night, even more night, furtherest night, then bedtime, though I don’t have a bed or furniture of any kind.” Have you always been a lychnobite, sensing the overwhelming superabundance of life after the sunset or is it a relatively recent development facilitated by your retirement from teaching? Do you consider yourself in any way to be a minimalist? Does your room bear any resemblance with a sparsely lit opium den where all exchanges happen at the floor level?

A.  I think the pandemic has had a lot to do with it.  Lately I’ve been up until five, sometimes six.  But I’ve always found mornings the harshest and ugliest part of the day (maybe it’s just because of the place where I live, but I never open the blinds anyway).  There can be something awfully scolding about a sunrise the older you get  Evening seems to extend every form of leniency, and in the dead of night, expectations go way down, which is where they maybe ought to stay.  I do spend all of my time on the floor, but my apartment doesn’t bear any resemblance to an opium den.  It’s more like a crawlspace or the back of a  dollar-store stockroom.    

Q. Even with your reputation of being a page-hugger than a typical page-turner, how do you decide which books to read apart from your line of work? Do you try to keep it largely in the familiar territory, like exploring the oeuvre of a time-tested writer? How does one unshackle oneself from this constant niggling that one ought to read so many books? Here's Ben Marcus: “When I was in graduate school, there was this sort of cautionary adage going around by the poet Francis Ponge that we can only write what we’ve already read and one way to hear that is you’re just sort of doomed to kind of regurgitate everything you’ve read and so if you’re just reading all the popular books, the books everyone else is reading, in some sense you’re maybe unwittingly confining yourself to a particular literary practice that’s gonna look pretty familiar. I remember at the time thinking, okay well if that’s true, if I’m just fated to that, then I’m gonna read things that no one else is reading. I loved to just go to the library and pretty randomly grab books, because I think for a little while, and I’m kinda glad this passed, but I really just had this feeling that a writer just consumes language and just sort of spits it out. So it didn’t matter. Like it didn’t have to be a great novel for it to be worth-reading. And I still read very little fiction in the end compared to non-fiction, essays, works of philosophy, science. And the other sort of dirty secret is: I don’t finish a lot of books. I just don’t care enough. I only finish a book if I have to or if I really want to. And, often, I’ll stop reading a book three pages from the end. I think that as writers, we probably feel a lot of pressure about what kind of a reader to be, what kind of a writer to be in, and we feel this shame, like “I haven’t read DH Lawrence, I’m such an asshole.” You begin to feel like you’ve these deficiencies and you gotta make them up and you never will and a lot of it is just kinda tyrannical. Of course, obviously, we must be naturally motivated to read and read and read and read but I guess I just started to notice that…I got a lot of my ideas by just reading…e.g. a gardening book…like the weird way a sentence was structured.” Then there's Moyra Davey: “Woolf famously said of reading: “The only advice … is to take no advice, … follow your instincts, … use your reason.” A similar thought was voiced by her elder contemporary Oscar Wilde, who did not believe in recommending books, only in de-recommending them. Later, Jorge Luis Borges echoed the same sentiment by discouraging “systematic bibliographies” in favor of “adulterous” reading. More recently, Gregg Bordowitz has promoted “promiscuous” reading in which you impulsively allow an “imposter” book to overrule any reading trajectory you might have set for yourself, simply because, for instance, a friend tells you in conversation that he is reading it and is excited by it. This evokes for me that most potent kind of reading — reading as flirtation with or eavesdropping on someone you love or desire, someone who figures in your fantasy life.”“What to read?” is a recurring dilemma in my life. The question always conjures up an image: a woman at home, half-dressed, moving restlessly from room to room, picking up a book, reading a page or two and no sooner feeling her mind drift, telling herself, “You should be reading something else, you should be doing something else.” The image also has a mise-en-scène: overstuffed, disorderly shelves of dusty and yellowing books, many of them unread; books in piles around the bed or faced down on a table; work prints of photographs, also with a faint covering of dust, taped to the walls of the studio; a pile of bills; a sink full of dishes. She is trying to concentrate on the page in front of her but a distracting blip in her head travels from one desultory scene to the next, each one competing for her attention. It is not just a question of which book will absorb her, for there are plenty that will do that, but rather, which book, in a nearly cosmic sense, will choose her, redeem her. Often what is at stake, should she want to spell it out, is the idea that something is missing, as in: what is the crucial bit of urgently needed knowledge that will save her, at least for this day? She has the idea that if she can simply plug into the right book then all will be calm, still, and right with the world. […] Must reading be tied to productivity to be truly satisfying […] Or is it the opposite, that it can only really gratify if it is a total escape? What is it that gives us a sense of sustenance and completion? Are we on some level always striving to attain that blissful state of un-agendaed reading remembered from childhood? What does it mean to spend a good part of one’s life absorbed in books? Given that our time is limited, the problem of reading becomes one of exclusion. Why pick one book over the hundreds, perhaps thousands on our bookshelves, the further millions in libraries and stores? For in settling on any book we are implicitly saying no to countless others. This conflict is aptly conjured up by essayist Lynne Sharon Schwartz as she reflects on “the many books (the many acts) I cannot in all decency leave unread (undone) — or can I?”” What way out do you suggest? Do you deem it worthwhile to eschew any shred of obligation and be propelled in any direction naturally? Like you said you found grammar books and lexicons more engaging and enjoyable than the novels.

A.  I seem to remember that in some magazine or another, James Wolcott once said “Read at whim.”  That has always sounded like the best advice.  And I assume it means to feel free to ditch any book that disappoints.  Like Ben Marcus, I’ve had experiences of abandoning a book just a few pages from the end, but I often don’t make it that far in most things anymore.  I came from a long line of nonreaders, so I’ve never felt any guilt about passing up books or writers that so many people seem to talk about a lot, and I don’t expect other people to like what I like. Some books I’ll start about halfway in and then see whether I might want to work my way back to the beginning.  Others I’ll start at the very end and inch my way toward the front, one sentence at a time, and see how far I can go that way.  I seem to remember that in The Pleasure of the Text, Roland Barthes recommends “cruising” a text, and maybe something like that is what I’m doing at least some of the time, if I understand what he means.  And every now and then I’ll read  a book straightforwardly for an hour and afterward wonder whether the time might have been better spent staring off into space. Too many books these days seem ungiving.  It’s the ungivingness that disappoints the most.  A lot of contemporary fiction has the gleam and sparkle of a trend feature in a glossy magazine, and I can appreciate the craft and the savvy that go into something like that, but I am drawn more toward stories and books that demand being read slowly and closely, pulse by pulse, the kind of fiction where everything--what little might be left of an entire blighted life--can pivot on the peal of a single syllable. Q.  I'd like to ask you so many questions. But let this be the last one for matters of convenience. Also, in a capitalistic world, one's enshrouded with guilt for taking one's time without being remunerative in any way. Among the books and films that you recently encountered, which ones do you think deserve rereads/rewatches? A.  I used to feel like the woman you’ve described so movingly above, someone who questions her choice of books almost to the brink of despair.  At my age, though, I no longer have a program for reading, a syllabus or a checklist, and I’m okay with knowing there’s a lot I’ll never get around to.  I’m happy being a rereader of a few inexhaustible books and chancing upon occasional fresh treasure.  The one book that has shaken me the most in the longest time is Anna DeForest’s  A History of Present Illness, which will be out next August.  It’s a blisteringly truthful novel written with moral grace and unsettling brilliance and an awing mastery of language.  A couple of recent books I have read in manuscript, books that totally knocked me out with their originality and uncanny command of the word, are Greg Gerke’s In the Suavity of the Rock (a novel) and David Nutt’s Summertime in the Emergency Room (a short-story collection).  I haven’t watched many movies in the past few months, and the ones I watched aren’t ones I’ll probably be rewatching anytime soon.  

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232 Book Recommendations From Derek Sivers

Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want by Nicholas Epley

So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William Irvine

The Time Paradox by Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd

Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber

The Dip by Seth Godin

Happy by Derren Brown

Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French by Gilles Asselin and Ruth Mastron

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson

Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday

Total Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger

Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now by Gordon Livingston

Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches by Marvin Harris

The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster by Darren Hardy

On Writing Well by William Zinsser

The Wisdom of No Escape by Pema Chödrön

When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön

Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner

The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

When Cultures Collide by Richard D. Lewis

The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman

Show Your Work by Austin Kleon

Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal

Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield

Quiet by Susan Cain

What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly

Do the Work by Steven Pressfield

What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith

The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman

Drive by Daniel Pink

Switch by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt

Influence by Robert Cialdini

Personal Development for Smart People by Steve Pavlina

Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes

The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss

The Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read by Daniel R. Solin

The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki

The Paradox of Choice - Why More is Less by Barry Schwartz

Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

The Art of Profitability by Adrian Slywotzky

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

The Geography of Genius by Eric Weiner

A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley

Smartcuts by Shane Snow

Superhuman by Habit by Tynan

The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday

Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams

5 Elements of Effective Thinking by Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird

The Icarus Deception by Seth Godin

Mastery by Robert Greene

Mastery by George Leonard

The Little Book of Talent by Daniel Coyle

The Developing World by Fredrik Härén

Willpower by Roy Baumeister and John Tierney

Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz

Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer

Practicing Mind by Thomas Sterner

Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin

Mindset by Carol Dweck

Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland

Start Small, Stay Small by Rob Walling and Mike Taber

On Writing by Stephen King

The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner

The Investor's Manifesto by William J. Bernstein

How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman

The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle

Ignore Everybody by Hugh MacLeod

Tribes by Seth Godin

How to Talk to Anyone by Leil Lowndes

Brain Rules by John Medina

You, Inc - The Art of Selling Yourselfby Harry Beckwith

How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis

The Innovator's Solution by Clayton Christensen

Small is the New Big by Seth Godin

Getting Things Done by David Allen

The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers

The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck

Grit by Angela Duckworth

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Fabe and Elaine Mazlish

The Gardener and the Carpenter by Alison Gopnik

The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly

Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson

Deep Work by Cal Newport

Geography of Time by Robert Levine

How to Learn a Foreign Language by Paul Pimsleur

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Choose Yourself! by James Altucher

No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs by Dan S. Kennedy

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

The Passionate Programmer by Chad Fowler

Fail-Safe Investingby Harry Browne

Poke the Box by Seth Godin

The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss

Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky

Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham

Confessions of a Public Speaker by Scott Berkun

I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi

Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes by Gilovich and Belsky

What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis

CrowdSourcing by Jeff Howe

The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz

The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin

Wikinomics by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams

Meatball Sundae by Seth Godin

Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug

Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t by Steven Pressfield

The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need by Andrew Tobias

Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change by Pema Chödrön

Germany: Unraveling an Enigma by Greg Nees

Give and Take by Adam M. Grant

The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Ikigai by Sebastian Marshall

Wired for Story by Lisa Cron

Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and David Thomas

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 

You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

Making a Good Brain Great by Daniel G. Amen

Business Stripped Bare by Richard Branson

Talent Is Overrated by Geoff Colvin

Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz

Overachievement by John Eliot

The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky

The Culture Code by Clotaire Rapaille

The Four Pillars of Investing by William Bernstein

Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky

The Culting of Brands by Douglas Atkin

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• A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts. – Bill Gates • A breakthrough occurs when you recognize, you are more energy than matter – Caroline Myss • After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999. – Barack Obama • All great inventions emerge from a long sequence of small sparks; the first idea often isn’t all that good, but thanks to collaboration it later sparks another idea, or it’s reinterpreted in an unexpected way. Collaboration brings small sparks together to generate breakthrough innovation. – Scott Belsky • All I need is the breakthrough. The joint-venture for my clothing. Same as Stella McCartney has. – Kanye West • All of us have at least one great voice deep inside. People are products of their environment. A lucky few are born into situations in which positive messages abound. Others grow up hearing messages of fear and failure, which they must block out so the positive can be heard. But the positive and courageous voice will always emerge, somewhere, sometime, for all of us. Listen for it, and your breakthroughs will come. – Pat Riley • All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. – Tony Robbins • All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it’s costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief. – Tony Robbins • All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. – Tony Robbins • All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking. – Thomas Kuhn • All technological breakthroughs start with a small “elite”. Think about cellphones, for example. Now just about everyone has one. The same will happen to innovations such as Twitter. – Helen Zille • Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking. – Stephen Covey • America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world. – Bill Frist • Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are considered “useless,” will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer or live more prosperously. The arts are the science of enjoying life. – John Maeda • And [we hope to sell] the clean fuels to other airlines. I mean, the exciting thing about the breakthrough with clean fuels for the airline industry is there’s only 1,700 pumps in the world that fill up the airlines. – Richard Branson • And I’m going to work as hard as I can… for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we’ll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I’d like to think I’m going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year! – Jim Valvano • And yet in a funny way our lack of success led to our breakthrough; because, since we could not get a cell line off the shelf doing what we wanted, we were forced to construct it. And the original experiment … developed into a method for the production of hybridomas … [which] was of more importance than our original purpose. – Cesar Milstein • Animal research and testing has played a part in almost every medical breakthrough of the last century. It has saved hundreds of millions of lives worldwide. – Joan Ryan • Any breakdown is a breakthrough. – Marshall McLuhan • Any time there is a cultural breakthrough in which this culture transcends what it’s supposed to be, there’s a violent reaction. So we had a black president, and it’s followed by an incredibly violent reaction. It happens over and over. – George C. Wolfe • As a Christian, when your trial is getting hotter, you are getting closer to your breakthrough! Keep pressing! – T. B. Joshua • As God’s representative on the earth, He has given us the authority to speak for Him. When we speak under the leading of the Holy Spirit, we speak as His voice on the earth. During strategic times, the Lord will prompt us to pray prayers that will bring breakthrough. – Barbara Wentroble • As I’m sure anyone who’s born after the ’70s’ access point is – is ’70s films and ’70s culture and there is a kind of a paranoiac atmosphere in that time in America. Yes, it’s the golden age of journalism, Watergate, and all the rest of these people making these great breakthroughs – but it’s also the moment that “if it bleeds, it leads” becomes mainstream and sensationalizing the news becomes more and more the given. Checking how many numbers you’re getting, whatever you can do to get more numbers. – Rebecca Hall • Asking “Why?” can lead to understanding. Asking “Why not?” can lead to breakthroughs. – Daniel H. Pink

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• Cancer can be attacked directly by metabolic enzymes and then be assisted by the enzyme diet programme. The second greatest cancer breakthrough of the 20th century is the metabolic organic effect on malignant tumours of correcting the body fluid pH to a non-acidic pH 7.1 to 7.5. A neutral pH 7.0 resists cancer formation. An acid body fluid pH of 6.44 and below permits tumours to biochemically become malignant. At pH 7.5 cancer may become inactive; at 8.5 tumours may disintegrate. – Benjamin Carson • Chaos often fosters the greatest creativity. Breakdowns often precede the greatest breakthroughs. And when the pain is greatest is often when we’re on the brink of the greatest realization…..When the pain is burned through rather than numbed, when our darkness is brought to light and then forgiven, then and only then can we move on. And move on we do. – Marianne Williamson • Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that’s ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, “The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything.” Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba. – Brennan Manning • Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn’t mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease. – Evgeny Morozov • Doctors…from the Office of Info. Tech. at Harvard U.(:)…Their appraisal of 46 surgical or anesthesia breakthroughs…suggested…only 13% were highly preferred (and)…in nearly half the cases the new therapy was no better than the therapy it replaced. …About 12% of the innovations increased complications. – Jeffrey Bland • Don’t they know science doesn’t work like that? You can’t just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something you’ve been working on for years and suddenly see a connection you never noticed before, or when you’re looking for something else altogether. Sometimes they even happen by accident. Don’t they know you can’t get a scientific breakthrough just because you want one? – Connie Willis • Ending torture and tyranny in Iraq was not a mistake. Supporting democracy in Iraq is not a mistake. Helping the long-suffering Muslims of Iraq who now seek to live democratically is not a mistake. In the long, long history of the Middle East, this breakthrough may one day be ranked as a dramatic turning point in regional history. – Michael Novak • Energy is very primal stuff and there are a lot of leads that are promising, still at a fairly risky stage, but over the next decade some of these breakthrough approaches are going to pay out, and U.S. research and U.S. leadership on this should be part of how it gets solved. – Bill Gates • Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic. – Terence McKenna • Even in the dark times between experimental breakthroughs, there always continues a steady evolution of theoretical ideas, leading almost imperceptibly to changes in previous beliefs. – Steven Weinberg • Ever so often in the history of human endeavour, there comes a breakthrough that takes humankind across a frontier into a new era. … today’s announcement is such a breakthrough, a breakthrough that opens the way for massive advancement in the treatment of cancer and hereditary diseases. And that is only the beginning. – Tony Blair • Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough. – John C. Maxwell • Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer – John C. Maxwell • Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree. – Thomas Keating • Except in very narrow cases, where there’s breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway. – Eric Ries • For anyone that’s ever had a musical breakthrough in their career, it’s always followed by the departure period right after. – Questlove • For many years I wrote nothing but “I will not sleep with Steve Almond” over and over again, page after page à la Jack Torrance in The Shining. Finally, hundreds of psychotherapy sessions and an intense shaman-guided DMT sweat lodge experience led to a breakthrough, and I was able to write about other people I would not sleep with, and also about people I would. – Alissa Nutting • For me the breakthrough was the realization that I wasn’t the center of the universe or even the centre of my own world. That you and your work, your living, are not the only reason you’re here. Your role is to shepherd your children through to adulthood. That’s the point of life. Your own little sessions and needs and passions are just there to flavour you and help you do that job for your children. – Shaun Micallef • Functional goods sold en masse earn a good return but breakthrough profits come from satisfying emotional needs. – Michael J. Silverstein • Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes. – Rosalia de Castro • Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers. – Pat Riley • Hemingway is a baby when he turns up in Paris, but he’s an ambitious baby. And he has the talent. And he’s there to stage his breakthrough. So many of the expats who were there at that time were there to do precisely that. It was an ambition-fueled town. – Lesley M. M. Blume • Highly successful leaders ignore conventional wisdom and take chances. Their stories inevitably include a defining moment or key decision when they took a significant risk and thereby experienced a breakthrough. – Larry Osborne • Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered. – Abdallah II • History teaches us that many breakthroughs were happy accidents. Whether that’s penicillin coming from Fleming neglecting to clean his laboratory before going on vacation or the team at Odeon trying a little side project that allowed people to communicate in real time as long as their message was 140 characters or less (which ultimately of course became Twitter), the unintended is often the transformational. – Scott D. Anthony • How do you discover a need that nobody yet knows about? This is where the product breakthroughs come through. – Donald A. Norman • I am also praying for you, my beloved partner. God has a miracle breakthrough for your life. – Mike Evans • I am highly favored by God, I experience great victories, supernatural turnarounds, and miraculous breakthroughs in the midst of great impossibilities. – DMX • I asked, “What do you think the most important advancement was for women in recent years?” And the majority, the item that polled the most, was Hillary Clinton’s run for President. Can you believe that? Women saw that as a breakthrough in something very, very important. She didn’t win. And I think another thing that her race did was it showed sexism in our society. – Carolyn Maloney • I believe it is possible that we can turn today’s breakdown into a planetary breakthrough on one condition. We can do it if we can break free of a set of dominant but misleading ideas that are taking us down. – Frances Moore Lappé • I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India. – Siddhartha Mukherjee • I do enjoy manga but would not consider myself a ‘super-fan,’ only really connecting with certain works such as ‘Lone Wolf and Cub,’ or ‘Tekkon Kinkreet,’ the more breakthrough works, and ‘Akira,’ to me, is the daddy of them all. – Gerard Way • I don’t see anything beneficial about the US spending 100 billion dollars to go back to the moon unless we learn something new that will help us go to the moons of Saturn okay and so we ought to use that to breed new breakthroughs and to test new breakthroughs and to fund it. – Burt Rutan • I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt. – Thomas Friedman • I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn’t want me to record for the Think Tank album… so I took it as a sign to leave. – Graham Coxon • I had a total revelation with the feminist moment, with Carolee Scheeman and Marina Abromovic and of course Joan Jonas; that was a big breakthrough with me. And through them, I was introduced to Chris Burden and Bruce Nauman and Vito Acconci. You can almost call it a gang, because the works are always talking together. That stuff had a huge impact on me, but other than that, my interest had always been old paintings. – Ragnar Kjartansson • I had my breakthrough at 6 years old and received the Lord, Jesus Christ. I was so swept up in the spirit, I told my parents I had future plans to enter the priesthood. – Jonathan Cain • I have an older sister and my mom would dress us up identically, so in all of our pictures, we’re in these giant pink, poufy outfits. I remember when I was four or five, we all went to a theme park and I had to go to the bathroom but couldn’t hold it in anymore. Let’s just say, I had to buy a brand new outfit! But that moment was the first time I remember ever wearing something different from my sister at an event. It was my breakthrough moment when I decided I was never going to match my sister again! – Analeigh Tipton • I have spent forty-five years teasing out the universal principles of success that are necessary to create massive breakthroughs. I am committed to teaching and disseminating those around the world. I also believe that most transformational leaders are focusing too much on outer techniques and overlooking the important inner qualities of beingness and presence that are required to create real and lasting transformation in the world. – Jack Canfield • I just went into my studio and started to compile stuff. I was so happy with what was coming out that good momentum just carried over and when I would listen back to some of the riffs and some of the ideas, I was completely happy because I felt like, “wow, this was a breakthrough!” The ideas and the songs were really strong and I couldn’t wait to show everybody the stuff. – Charlie Benante • I love reading about all of the breakthroughs and all of the new tech, even just the little household things that are coming on the market. I’ve always been nerdy about that. – Zachary Levi • I never thought in terms of a “breakthrough” film. I wasn’t looking for fame or a career path into Hollywood. I was doing it for myself. I just wanted to make a film that I really loved. If other people liked it, great. But you can never guess what other people are going to like. – Terry Zwigoff • I think as far as straight actors playing gay roles, “Brokeback Mountain” was a big breakthrough. I’m pretty sure when they were casting that movie that – I think the story is, like you know, 10 to 15 other actors turned it down. – James Franco • I think if someone else other than Reagan, someone less of a hardliner, had been in power then the breakthrough in ending the Cold War would not have happened. – Eduard Shevardnadze • I think it would be a great tragedy to devote medical resources and genetic technological breakthroughs to purposes that are not to do with health or medicine, but instead are to do with satisfying the desires that are created by the consumer society. – Michael Sandel • I think President Barack Obama came to office with quite fundamental understandings in his mind about what’s possible and what’s not possible in the Middle East. The first, I would say, revolutionary breakthrough that he introduced is that the Middle East doesn’t matter to American geostrategy as much as we think. – Vali Nasr • I think we’re going to have to do better. Mr. Nixon talks about our being the strongest country in the world. I think we are today, but we were far stronger relative to the Communists 5 years ago. And what is of great concern is that the balance of power is in danger of moving with them. They made a breakthrough in missiles and by 1961, ‘2, and ‘3, they will be outnumbering us in missiles. – John F. Kennedy • I thought ‘Borat’ was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn’t some studio-produced script with 14 writers. – Steve Martin • I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it – well, it is dangerous – but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work – Harold Brodkey • I was reminded of the Sydney Harris cartoon that said ‘adding two numbers that have not been added before does not constitute a mathematical breakthrough’. – Ronald Graham • I watch mainly fiction. The films I like watching are films where you see people change, like with Boyhood. You see a moment in someone’s life where it’s a breakthrough. For me, the breakthrough in Boyhood is that amazing moment right at the end when he finds somebody he can feel relaxed with, and who will maybe be a friend for the rest of his life. I like that it doesn’t end in a love affair or marriage. It just ends in, “Wow, I found people I can relate to for the first people in my life. These people accept me, I like them.” – Kim Longinotto • I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success. – Joyce Meyer • I work from the body – I try to develop a language of the body. I’ve invented a term I call “corporeal writing” around that idea. I love teaching and collaborating around this idea, because no new breakthrough in literature ever happened because everyone was doing what was already there. – Lidia Yuknavitch • I write different kinds of sentences, depending on what the book is, and what the project is. I see my work evolving. I’m writing long sentences now, something I didn’t use to do. I had some kind of breakthrough, five or six years ago, in Invisible, and in Sunset Park after that. I discovered a new way to write sentences. And I find it exhilarating. – Paul Auster • I’m faster than the rest of you, if .. Because I’m a vampire,” Michael said, and it was some kind of breakthrough for him to say that. “If you get in trouble, I’ll be there.” “Nice,” Shane said. “I’m warming up to this bloodsucking thing, Mikey.” “No, you’re not.” “Okay, no, I’m not, but right now let’s pretend I am. – Rachel Caine • If it’s not broken, break it. That’s how new discoveries are made. That’s why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough. – Sylvester Stallone • If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can’t be breakthroughs. – Peter Diamandis • If you are predisposed to be patient, disciplined and psychologically appreciate the idea of buying bargains, then you’re likely to be good at it. If you have a need for action, if you want to be involved in the new and exciting technological breakthroughs of our time, that’s great, but you’re not a value investor, and you shouldn’t be one. – Seth Klarman • If you look at how the US economy has suffered over the last 15 or 20 years, it’s in significant part because we haven’t done the investments in research and development and infrastructure and other public goods that are necessary for our growth. And, unfortunately, we’re going to be feeling that overhang for a long time to come, because it’s the investments we made in the 1950s and ’60s and ’70s that result in some of the greatest technological breakthroughs that we enjoy today. – Jacob Hacker • In a world where routine production is footloose…competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away. – Robert Reich • In recent years, we have seen technology advance at lightning speed, allowing us to accomplish lifesaving feats never imagined before. It is our responsibility to ensure that these advances are used for positive medical breakthroughs, and not allowed to restrict rights or limit access to health insurance or job opportunities. – Evan Bayh • In the inner city, there’s a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I’ve gotta love me more than anybody else loves me. – Mary J. Blige • In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough! – Nicholas D. Kristof • In thinking about nanotechnology today, what’s most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough. – K. Eric Drexler • Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation. – George Brown, Jr. • Innovation is not a big breakthrough invention every time. Innovation is a constant thing. But if you don’t have an innovative company [team], coming to work everyday to find a better way, you don’t have a company[team]. You’re getting ready to die on the vine. You’re always looking for the next innovation, the next niche, the next product improvement, the next service improvement. But always trying to get better. – Jack Welch • It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. – R. Buckminster Fuller • It is a high bar to say that it’s more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda [Gates] and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people. – Bill Gates • It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research. – Roger Wicker • It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do? – Hanif Kureishi • It’s funny, everywhere I go some people ask me whether it’s going to be a Latino breakthrough, some people ask me whether it’s going to be a female breakthrough, and then I’m reminded that five years ago we didn’t even know Barack Obama’s name. – Gwen Ifill • It’s irrational to assume you can ever truly evaluate yourself as a good or bad human being. You will never have enough information.That “bad person” at work who torments you might be an excellent father to his kids. That other “bad person” at work who screwed up royally today? That error might later lead to a huge breakthrough. We will never have enough info to holistically evaluate a person and score them in totality as “bad” or “good.” – David D. Burns • It’s not that we need to form new organizations. It’s simply that we have to awaken to new ways of thinking. I believe it makes no sense to spend a lot of time attacking the current realities. It is time to create the new models that have in them the complexity that makes the older systems obsolete. And to the extent that we can do that, and do that quickly, I think we can provide what will be necessary for a major breakthrough for the future. – Don Edward Beck • It’s your time for a breakthrough! Make up your mind to leave the past and the old you behind. Focus on giving birth to a new you….the real you. It is your time to create a turning point for the better in your life. It is your destiny to be healthy, happy and successful.Your future is open, full of possibility and promise! Buckle down and do whatever is required to create a life that you are proud of and a life that you deserve! Don’t look back!! Look ahead, move forward and make this your best year ever! You have the something special. You have GREATNESS within you! – Les Brown • I’ve done a number of projects where people go, ‘This is your breakthrough role,’ so I’ve stopped thinking that. – Matthew Rhys • I’ve found that often, just when you think you’ve hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment – Stedman Graham • I’ve had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I’ve seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way. – Jonathan Lethem • Just like the breakthroughs, the bad stuff always takes you by surprise. – Gail Giles • Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People’s needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it. – Ray Kurzweil • Learning is the beginning of wealth. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize it that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do. – Albert Einstein • Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness. – Tom Robbins • Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago. – Dalai Lama • MAD FREE is a conversation project, not an organization, but I’ve literally have seen women have breakthroughs in real time. They learn and connect. I’ve had more women I could count say one of our conversations inspired them to be bold and wonderful things like getting PHD’s or traveling to the continent. I am certainly far more inspired by the community of women than they are inspired. – Michaela Angela Davis • Manufacture, don’t just trade. There is money in manufacturing even though it is capital intensive. To achieve a big breakthrough, I had to start manufacturing the same product I was trading on; which is commodities. – Aliko Dangote • Many so-called pragmatists want nothing to do with space exploration or other kinds of ambitious endeavours that don’t have a clear payoff. This mentality is hugely damaging to our success as a civilization. Our desire to understand the universe is kindled by curiosity and wonder, and this has fuelled countless scientific breakthroughs. – Garry Kasparov • Maybe it’s wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing knowledge that we ourselves will someday die, and the love of snow are in reality not some sudden events; maybe they were always present. Maybe they never completely vanish, either. – Peter Høeg • Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, ‘I don’t get it, I don’t understand it. I think it’s too weird, I think it’s too unusual.’ – Marc Andreessen • My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers – Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few. – Terry Brooks • My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50…I had the strength for new deeds and ideas. – Edvard Munch • My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan’s Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did. – Peter Straub • My innovation message, specifically including energy, happened to be the same week that on Monday and Tuesday I announced the Breakthrough Energy Venture Group. Then on that Tuesday afternoon, in December, was when I sat down with him. I explained the US has great science here, this is where the market for these things is going to be. It connects to less pollution, it connects to U.S. jobs, it connects to security, not needing the energy coming from far away. – Bill Gates • My position hasn’t changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change. – Avi Rubin • Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions. – Frans Johansson • New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works…images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models – surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works – promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations. – Peter Senge • Not even God can make something fair out of what is intrinsically unfair. Only one thing can be done. Something must break through the crust of unfairness and create a chance for a new fairness. Only forgiveness can make the breakthrough. – Lewis B. Smedes • Obama is hardly the first president to seek rapprochement with our adversaries and reconciliation with our enemies, of course. But his determination to make nice – even in the face of clear and repeated rejection from the other side – is unparalleled. For Obama and his team, diplomacy with rogue regimes is an end in itself, and any deal, however one-sided, is a win, especially one that the White House communications mavens think that friendly media will call a ‘breakthrough’ or ‘historic.’- Stephen F. Hayes • Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers. – Cub Koda • One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein’s four rules of writing, one of which was, ‘You must finish what you write.’ I never had any problem with the first one, ‘You must write’ – I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing. – George R. R. Martin • One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity. – Brian Eno • One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they’ve failed more often than everyone else. – Seth Godin • One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know… Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough… So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness. – William S. Burroughs • Part of battle has been getting Hollywood to recognize that comic books and superheroes are not synonymous. That’s been a huge breakthrough, just in recent years really, and as a result of that recent breakthrough, we’ve had movies like 300, Road to Perdition, and A History of Violence, that very few people realize were based on comic books and graphic novels. It’s very important to make that differentiation. – Michael Uslan • People tend to think of breakthroughs in medicine as a new drug, a laser, or a high-tech surgical procedure. They often have a hard time believing that the simple choices that we make in our lifestyle. What we eat, how we respond to stress, whether or not we smoke cigarettes, how much exercise we get, and the quality of our relationships and support can be as powerful as drugs and surgery. And they often are. – Dean Ornish • Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson’s. – Mort Kondracke • Praise works best at the start, before the miracle, before the breakthrough, before the restoration. – Brian Houston • Prayer is the burden of revival; repentance is the breakthrough of revival; evangelism is the blessing of revival; holiness is the bounty of revival. – Steve Camp • Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment. – R. D. Laing • Qatar is giving 2.8% of our GDP to research. This is something again that is a breakthrough, as nobody was even thinking of research as a tool or component for advancement in this part of the world. – Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned • Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how the world is. – Anton Zeilinger • Rockets have remained fundamentally unchanged, except for a few exceptions for the last almost 50 years. So, for there to be a fundamental shift in rocketry and getting into space, there almost has to be a breakthrough in propulsion. Either in how to bring the price down, or how to more efficiently get people up into space and the key barrier is the expense of a rocket. – Leroy Chiao • Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming. Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months to develop can be produced in a matter of days. – Tim O’Reilly • Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting. – James D. Watson • Since the moment of self-consciousness comes to a permanent end – and a new journey begins- is such a decisive stroke or milestone in the contemplative life, I can only speculate why so little has been said of this breakthrough; in fact , I may never get over the silence on the part of writers who say nothing about this second movement. – Bernadette Roberts • Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy. – Ted Nordhaus • So as long as I’m a human being and I’m not perfect, I’m able to say I’m having some growing pains. Because in order to sustain where you are once you made such a breakthrough that everyone is looking at you, now everyone is like, ‘Ooh, is she gonna make a mistake?’ Yes, I’m going to make a mistake. Yes, I’m still gonna do things. – Mary J. Blige • So not only are we saving lives now, we’re creating the incentive for the breakthroughs that over the next generation will mean we can take AIDS, malaria and TB and bring those numbers dramatically down. – Bill Gates • Someone once told me that the finer points of devotion are about the size of a pinhole, and there are millions of them. And if you could connect each dot, then you’ve got a diagram of what you think you thought you knew, and if you’re willing to admit that you know nothing…you have the blueprint for a breakthrough. – Shane Koyczan • Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation. – Cherrie Moraga • Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem. – Bill Johnson • Sometimes when you are the closest to your breakthrough the pressure is the greatest. You have come too far to give up now! – Joyce Meyer • Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling. – Naveen Jain • Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it’s a relay race. – Nguyen Quyen • Technology has a great deal to do with it. The Panaflex camera was a big breakthrough when it came along; it changed everything, because now you could shoot from the perspective of a person riding in the backseat of a car. – Vilmos Zsigmond • Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer • That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated. The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs. – Rem Koolhaas • That’s the best part of the game, to see the smiles on their faces and the breakthroughs they have as individuals. – Russell Westbrook • The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas. – Nicholas Negroponte • The activities you are most afraid of are the activities that can cause a breakthrough in your success. Step into them. – Darren Hardy • The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react. – Erwin Rommel • The best way to honor past accomplishments is by building on top of their breakthroughs. – Bill Johnson • The biggest breakthrough in the next 50 years will be the discovery of extraterrestrial life. We have been searching for it for 50 years and found nothing. That proves life is rarer than we hoped, but does not prove that the universe is lifeless. We are only now developing the tools to make our searches efficient and far-reaching, as optical and radio detection and data processing move forward. – Freeman Dyson • The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another. – Pal Benko • The expense of getting into space is the rocket launch, the rocket itself. Rocket’s right now, commercial rockets cost probably somewhere between $50, or $120, or $150 million per launch. And those are all expendable. That is, you’ve got to buy a new rocket for each launch. So, that really is the critical part. If there was some kind of really, a revolutionary breakthrough and the price of rockets fell by an order of magnitude, I mean, just imagine what that would do as far as getting access to more ordinary people. – Leroy Chiao • The FDA, NCI and ACS, and the large treatment centres work to eliminate choice of cancer therapies, particulary better ones. They openly attack breakthroughs made by “mavericks”, which they define as anyone outside their ranks. Folks, any serious study of how these entities work together to destroy hopeful approaches to cancer reveals a trail of corruption, conspiracy, dishonesty, and inhumanity that warrants desigantion of evil……..We continue to use them not because they work, but because those who perform them have so vigorously eliminated any other choice. – Julian Whitaker • The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible. – Bruce Lee • The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do. – Brian Tracy • The greatest existential risks over the coming decades or century arise from certain, anticipated technological breakthroughs that we might make in particular, machine super intelligence, nanotechnology and synthetic biology. Each of these has an enormous potential for improving the human condition by helping cure disease, poverty, etc. But one could imagine them being misused, used to create powerful weapon systems, or even some kind of accidental destructive scenario, where we suddenly are in possession of some technology that’s far more powerful than we are able to control or use wisely. – Nick Bostrom • The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. – Peter Singer • The man in the street has unfortunately been sold the idea that the breakthrough cure for cancer is just around the corner… The very prospect of effective treatment seems so remote that it doesn’t even enter into the speculative day-to-day conversation of people engaged in cancer research… New treatments have not produced any detectable decline in the total annual cancer mortality, even for children. – John Cairns • The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, the more it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation. – Vijay Govindarajan • The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people – as remarkable as the telephone. – Steve Jobs • The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human. – John Naisbitt • The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. – Bill Gates • The prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century was both a cause and an effect of social and scientific breakthroughs that have redefined human life. The biggest change is simply that people live longer and have far more freedom to think about things other than staying alive. – David Bornstein • The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for products and processes that are not truly innovative – things like the queuing system for Netflix, which was patented in 2003. Yes, it makes renting movies a snap, but was it really a breakthrough deserving patent protection? – Robert Pozen • The Refugee Convention of 1951 was a major breakthrough, outlining the rights of those displaced across borders as well as the legal obligations of states to protect them. – Kofi Annan • The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable. – Elon Musk • The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album. – Faith Hill • The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality. – Jean Cocteau • The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months. – Eddie Van Halen • The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society. – Mike Fitzpatrick • The transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the legitimacy of the transfer. The consequences of this breakthrough are hard to overstate. – Marc Andreessen • The urge to quit is strongest just before breakthroughs occur. Those are the times when it’s most important to stay focused and committed. You will encounter the urge to quit many times. Get over it. Quitting is not an option; always be prepared to give it one more day. – Matthew Barnett • The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art. – Penn Jillette • The work of cultivating experiences called “peak experiences” or “mystic moments” or “breakthroughs” until they become more accessible is part of the essential nature of genuine spiritual discipline. These are moments, at the very least, of approaching the experiential verification that there does exist something Higher within and perhaps also outside of ourselves. Moments at the very least of approaching what the religions call God. – Jacob Needleman • There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time. – Joyce Meyer • There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. – Helen Frankenthaler • There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others’ disruptive breakthroughs. – Jay Samit • There is no breakthrough without a breakdown. – Tony Robbins • There is not ultimate breakthrough; what we find in the development of a creative life is an open-ended series of provisional breakthroughs. In this journey there is no endpoint, because it is the journey into the soul. – Stephen Nachmanovitch • There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer. – Bill Gates • There’s so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we’re going to get through it. Just be strong. – Mary J. Blige • These were in the days before anybody thought to criticize Congressmen, let alone first ladies, for making money on speeches. So Eleanor raked in quite a bit of cash that she may have put, for all I know, to good uses, or maybe not. I just don’t know. But I don’t think she was any great literary breakthrough. – William A. Rusher • This amazing breakthrough full-length revolutionary audio uses a powerful new combination of a subliminal hypnotic induction AND beautiful original music (created with a really cool ancient musical instrument) AND brand-new subliminal clearing commands ALL designed to begin to clear your unconscious blocks of anything and everything in the way of your attracting what you really want – and this incredible one-hour audio does it without any effort at all on your part! – Joe Vitale • This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton’s famous phrase. Great breakthroughs are closer to what happens in a flood plain: a dozen separate tributaries converge, and the rising waters lift the genius high enough that he or she can see around the conceptual obstructions of the age. – Steven Johnson • This will be a week that I change your sheets! Don’t try to rest the same way you’ve rested in the past, for I AM remaking your bed to rest in. Know that I AM causing your house to be reordered and redirecting your steps. And because your bed is being made, stay focused and up with Me, until the breakthrough is seen in your life. – Chuck Pierce • To have a breakthrough, you must consciously connect with the invisible forces that are everywhere around you, urging you to go beyond your old conditioning. – Deepak Chopra • To have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think. – Newt Gingrich • To me the biggest breakthrough was when we did Terminator 2 that just opened the door for Jurassic and all of the others and that was as big as when we did motion control on Star Wars. But I don’t see another big thing coming. – Dennis Muren • To save the planet, we do not need miraculous technical breakthroughs, or vast amounts of capital. Essentially we need a radical change in our thinking and behaviour. – Ted Trainer • To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now ‘heros du cinema.’ This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris. – A. J. Liebling • To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master. – Rajneesh • Today, nearly every competitive advantage of the past has been commoditized. Creativity is the one thing that can’t be outsourced. The one thing that can separate a company, team, or individual from the competitive set. Today, precision execution is merely the ante to play. Sustained differentiation can only come from breakthrough creativity. – Josh Linkner • True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses. – Peter Diamandis • Understand that the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows you are closest to your breakthrough. He’d leave you alone if he thought you were going to live in mediocrity. If you keep pressing on toward your promise, through faith and patience, you will get there. – Joel Osteen • Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The smart people dont. – Burt Rutan • We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. – Dane Cook • We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. When you’re headed for a breakthrough moment, it’s kind of scary because you say, ‘If I break through then I have to make great change in my life.’ – Dane Cook • We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough. – Harold S. Kushner • We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad – amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash. – Steven Johnson • We don’t have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy? – Robert Lanza • We have a strong military deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan. In countries like Syria, we need a diplomatic breakthrough to end the war. In Libya, the country must first of all be stabilized to stop IS. This means supporting the Libyan government, including in terms of security. We don’t want to repeat the mistakes of the past in that country. The situation is extremely dangerous and the next days could be decisive. – Paolo Gentiloni • We live at the threshold of a universal recognition that the human being is not mere matter, but a potent, energetic field of consciousness. Modalities of the past millennium are quickly giving way to breakthrough technologies wherein we heal ourselves at the level of all true healing, which is spirit. – Michael Beckwith • We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs… are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war. – William Perry • We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, “Hey, we’ll put significant money into [energy innovations] when they’re ready to spin out probably into startup companies.” – Bill Gates • Well technologically and so forth, it’s a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it’s very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content. – Cornel West • What appears to be a breakdown can often be a breakthrough…. IF you understand God’s grace – Carl Lentz • What drives me? Surrounding myself with amazing talent to craft a breakthrough product which can be used by millions of people to change the world. – Mike McCue • What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined. – Archibald MacLeish • What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions. – Camille Paglia • What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you’re slamming your head against the wall. So it’s nice to make a breakthrough and not kind of lying there with your head bleeding. – Lewis Black • What we are now doing with the victory, and I agree with you if you condemn that and I condemn whole-heartedly the trivial bullshit it is to go after a man who makes a scientific breakthrough and all that we as women — organized women — do is to fret about his shirt? – Ayaan Hirsi Ali • What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don’t just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else. – Steven Johnson • When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, ‘Who’s that bloke with the funny name?’ They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn’t afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It’s who I am. – Pete Postlethwaite • When I was 18, I went to a Baptist church with my girlfriend, and had a breakthrough when a pastor laid hands on me on an altar call. I wept that evening and realized how numb I had become with God and how He was calling to me for restoration. I received that blessing and went on to raising my three children in a Lutheran Church in the Bay Area as a member of Journey. – Jonathan Cain • When things get rough, a breakthrough is just on the other side of the pain. – Shirley MacLaine • When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology? – Theodore Zeldin • When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner. – Joyce Meyer • When you make a breakthrough it is a moment of scientific exhilaration because you have been on this search and seem to have found it. But it is also a moment where I at least feel closeness to the creator in the sense of having now perceived something that no human knew before but God knew all along. – Francis Collins • When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible. – Marianne Williamson • While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner. – Mike Pence • Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough! – Brian Houston • Without risks, there can’t be breakthroughs. – Peter Diamandis • YOU are on the verge of complete breakthrough in every area of your life. Spiritually, Financially, and Relationally God has shown me that this is a season of victory for His people. As I went deeper in the Spirit the Lord revealed that before the breakthrough comes, certain things must be dealt with. Specifically, there must be a complete defeat of your enemies! – Paula White • You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three. – Sam Altman • You have to go through the darkness to truly know the light. This may sound like a cliche, but it’s true nonetheless. Often the greatest doubts occur just before a breakthrough. – Surya Das • You never do arrive at a destination. You have to work at it and take ownership of the process. What resonates at age 25 is likely to change by age 35 and 45. The process never ends. Realizing this has been a big breakthrough for me. – Robert S. Kaplan • You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don’t quit! – Joyce Meyer • Your doubts are not the product of accurate thinking, but habitual thinking. Years ago you excepted flawed conclusions as correct, begin to live your life as if those warped ideas about your potential were true, and ceased the bold experiment in living that brought you many breakthrough behaviors as a child. – Price Pritchett

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• A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts. – Bill Gates • A breakthrough occurs when you recognize, you are more energy than matter – Caroline Myss • After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999. – Barack Obama • All great inventions emerge from a long sequence of small sparks; the first idea often isn’t all that good, but thanks to collaboration it later sparks another idea, or it’s reinterpreted in an unexpected way. Collaboration brings small sparks together to generate breakthrough innovation. – Scott Belsky • All I need is the breakthrough. The joint-venture for my clothing. Same as Stella McCartney has. – Kanye West • All of us have at least one great voice deep inside. People are products of their environment. A lucky few are born into situations in which positive messages abound. Others grow up hearing messages of fear and failure, which they must block out so the positive can be heard. But the positive and courageous voice will always emerge, somewhere, sometime, for all of us. Listen for it, and your breakthroughs will come. – Pat Riley • All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. – Tony Robbins • All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. You must feel deep in your gut that not only has this belief cost you pain in the past, but it’s costing you in the present and, ultimately, can only bring you pain in the future. Then you must associate tremendous pleasure to the idea of adopting a new, empowering belief. – Tony Robbins • All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief. – Tony Robbins • All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking. – Thomas Kuhn • All technological breakthroughs start with a small “elite”. Think about cellphones, for example. Now just about everyone has one. The same will happen to innovations such as Twitter. – Helen Zille • Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking. – Stephen Covey • America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world. – Bill Frist • Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are considered “useless,” will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer or live more prosperously. The arts are the science of enjoying life. – John Maeda • And [we hope to sell] the clean fuels to other airlines. I mean, the exciting thing about the breakthrough with clean fuels for the airline industry is there’s only 1,700 pumps in the world that fill up the airlines. – Richard Branson • And I’m going to work as hard as I can… for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we’ll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I’d like to think I’m going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year! – Jim Valvano • And yet in a funny way our lack of success led to our breakthrough; because, since we could not get a cell line off the shelf doing what we wanted, we were forced to construct it. And the original experiment … developed into a method for the production of hybridomas … [which] was of more importance than our original purpose. – Cesar Milstein • Animal research and testing has played a part in almost every medical breakthrough of the last century. It has saved hundreds of millions of lives worldwide. – Joan Ryan • Any breakdown is a breakthrough. – Marshall McLuhan • Any time there is a cultural breakthrough in which this culture transcends what it’s supposed to be, there’s a violent reaction. So we had a black president, and it’s followed by an incredibly violent reaction. It happens over and over. – George C. Wolfe • As a Christian, when your trial is getting hotter, you are getting closer to your breakthrough! Keep pressing! – T. B. Joshua • As God’s representative on the earth, He has given us the authority to speak for Him. When we speak under the leading of the Holy Spirit, we speak as His voice on the earth. During strategic times, the Lord will prompt us to pray prayers that will bring breakthrough. – Barbara Wentroble • As I’m sure anyone who’s born after the ’70s’ access point is – is ’70s films and ’70s culture and there is a kind of a paranoiac atmosphere in that time in America. Yes, it’s the golden age of journalism, Watergate, and all the rest of these people making these great breakthroughs – but it’s also the moment that “if it bleeds, it leads” becomes mainstream and sensationalizing the news becomes more and more the given. Checking how many numbers you’re getting, whatever you can do to get more numbers. – Rebecca Hall • Asking “Why?” can lead to understanding. Asking “Why not?” can lead to breakthroughs. – Daniel H. Pink

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jQuery(document).ready(function($) var data = action: 'polyxgo_products_search', type: 'Product', keywords: 'Break+through', orderby: 'rand', order: 'DESC', template: '1', limit: '32', columns: '4', viewall:'Shop All', ; jQuery.post(spyr_params.ajaxurl,data, function(response) var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(response); jQuery('#thelovesof_break-through').html(obj); jQuery('#thelovesof_break-through img.swiper-lazy:not(.swiper-lazy-loaded)' ).each(function () var img = jQuery(this); img.attr("src",img.data('src')); img.addClass( 'swiper-lazy-loaded' ); img.removeAttr('data-src'); ); ); ); • Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality. – Thomas Cech • Because we are God’s children…we can bring our needs to him with certainty in prayer…. Prayer is not some kind of heavenly lottery. Nor does the Bible counsel us to pray with an “I hope this will work”…attitude. Instead…prayer brings us before the throne of grace as children seeking the help of their heavenly Father. That’s the heart of breakthrough, successful prayer-the bold confidence that we are talking to the Father who delights to supply our needs. – Jim Cymbala • Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them. – Marc Andreessen • Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately needed – Thomas Friedman • Both instruments are processors of information. Both appeared when nothing quite like them had existed before, and both began to make their effects felt immediately (a situation that isn’t invariable with new technology). Both devices were less the result of a single breakthrough than of an evolving set of technologies. Like the computer, the printing press had no one certain inventor; it was a technology whose time had come. – Pamela McCorduck • Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice – and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers. – Eugene Schwartz • Breakthrough happened around me when breakup happened within me. – Jack W. Hayford • Breakthrough ideas look crazy, nuts. It’s hard to think this way — I see it in other people’s body language, and I can feel it in my own, where I sometimes feel like I don’t even care if it’s going to work, I can’t take more change. O.K., Google, O.K., Twitter—but Airbnb? People staying in each other’s houses without there being a lot of axe murders? – Marc Andreessen • Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating – Ben Horowitz • Breakthrough is how to distinguish a leader and who followed – Steve Jobs • Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected. – Lynda Obst • Brokenness is often the road to breakthrough. Be encouraged. – Tony Evans • But so long as we can keep this crew of fantastic people together and can continue to make real breakthrough films in this category, as well as characters that stay true to what we’ve done in this first film, I’d be more than happy to be a part of it. – Brandon Routh • But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to life. Van Gogh, Beethoven, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Pink Floyd (the early Piper at the Gates of Dawn line up), scientific breakthroughs, spiritual revolution, utopian visions, zany nationalism that kills millions- wait, that’s the bad kind. Tim Dorsey (Hurricane Punch) – Tim Dorsey • By creating a self-policing, self-reporting, sort of self-monitoring culture through law, through statute, and imposing that on the academic world, I think not only are we losing a significant measure of freedom in academic traditions and in our civil society, but we’re actually making ourselves less competitive with every other country around the world that does not do that. Because that’s where researchers are going to go and that’s where academics are going to go. And ultimately, that’s where breakthroughs are going to occur. – Edward Snowden

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• Cancer can be attacked directly by metabolic enzymes and then be assisted by the enzyme diet programme. The second greatest cancer breakthrough of the 20th century is the metabolic organic effect on malignant tumours of correcting the body fluid pH to a non-acidic pH 7.1 to 7.5. A neutral pH 7.0 resists cancer formation. An acid body fluid pH of 6.44 and below permits tumours to biochemically become malignant. At pH 7.5 cancer may become inactive; at 8.5 tumours may disintegrate. – Benjamin Carson • Chaos often fosters the greatest creativity. Breakdowns often precede the greatest breakthroughs. And when the pain is greatest is often when we’re on the brink of the greatest realization…..When the pain is burned through rather than numbed, when our darkness is brought to light and then forgiven, then and only then can we move on. And move on we do. – Marianne Williamson • Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that’s ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, “The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything.” Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba. – Brennan Manning • Creative experimentation propels our culture forward. That our stories of innovation tend to glorify the breakthroughs and edit out all the experimental mistakes doesn’t mean that mistakes play a trivial role. As any artist or scientist knows, without some protected, even sacred space for mistakes, innovation would cease. – Evgeny Morozov • Doctors…from the Office of Info. Tech. at Harvard U.(:)…Their appraisal of 46 surgical or anesthesia breakthroughs…suggested…only 13% were highly preferred (and)…in nearly half the cases the new therapy was no better than the therapy it replaced. …About 12% of the innovations increased complications. – Jeffrey Bland • Don’t they know science doesn’t work like that? You can’t just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something you’ve been working on for years and suddenly see a connection you never noticed before, or when you’re looking for something else altogether. Sometimes they even happen by accident. Don’t they know you can’t get a scientific breakthrough just because you want one? – Connie Willis • Ending torture and tyranny in Iraq was not a mistake. Supporting democracy in Iraq is not a mistake. Helping the long-suffering Muslims of Iraq who now seek to live democratically is not a mistake. In the long, long history of the Middle East, this breakthrough may one day be ranked as a dramatic turning point in regional history. – Michael Novak • Energy is very primal stuff and there are a lot of leads that are promising, still at a fairly risky stage, but over the next decade some of these breakthrough approaches are going to pay out, and U.S. research and U.S. leadership on this should be part of how it gets solved. – Bill Gates • Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic. – Terence McKenna • Even in the dark times between experimental breakthroughs, there always continues a steady evolution of theoretical ideas, leading almost imperceptibly to changes in previous beliefs. – Steven Weinberg • Ever so often in the history of human endeavour, there comes a breakthrough that takes humankind across a frontier into a new era. … today’s announcement is such a breakthrough, a breakthrough that opens the way for massive advancement in the treatment of cancer and hereditary diseases. And that is only the beginning. – Tony Blair • Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough. – John C. Maxwell • Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer – John C. Maxwell • Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree. – Thomas Keating • Except in very narrow cases, where there’s breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway. – Eric Ries • For anyone that’s ever had a musical breakthrough in their career, it’s always followed by the departure period right after. – Questlove • For many years I wrote nothing but “I will not sleep with Steve Almond” over and over again, page after page à la Jack Torrance in The Shining. Finally, hundreds of psychotherapy sessions and an intense shaman-guided DMT sweat lodge experience led to a breakthrough, and I was able to write about other people I would not sleep with, and also about people I would. – Alissa Nutting • For me the breakthrough was the realization that I wasn’t the center of the universe or even the centre of my own world. That you and your work, your living, are not the only reason you’re here. Your role is to shepherd your children through to adulthood. That’s the point of life. Your own little sessions and needs and passions are just there to flavour you and help you do that job for your children. – Shaun Micallef • Functional goods sold en masse earn a good return but breakthrough profits come from satisfying emotional needs. – Michael J. Silverstein • Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes. – Rosalia de Castro • Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers. – Pat Riley • Hemingway is a baby when he turns up in Paris, but he’s an ambitious baby. And he has the talent. And he’s there to stage his breakthrough. So many of the expats who were there at that time were there to do precisely that. It was an ambition-fueled town. – Lesley M. M. Blume • Highly successful leaders ignore conventional wisdom and take chances. Their stories inevitably include a defining moment or key decision when they took a significant risk and thereby experienced a breakthrough. – Larry Osborne • Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered. – Abdallah II • History teaches us that many breakthroughs were happy accidents. Whether that’s penicillin coming from Fleming neglecting to clean his laboratory before going on vacation or the team at Odeon trying a little side project that allowed people to communicate in real time as long as their message was 140 characters or less (which ultimately of course became Twitter), the unintended is often the transformational. – Scott D. Anthony • How do you discover a need that nobody yet knows about? This is where the product breakthroughs come through. – Donald A. Norman • I am also praying for you, my beloved partner. God has a miracle breakthrough for your life. – Mike Evans • I am highly favored by God, I experience great victories, supernatural turnarounds, and miraculous breakthroughs in the midst of great impossibilities. – DMX • I asked, “What do you think the most important advancement was for women in recent years?” And the majority, the item that polled the most, was Hillary Clinton’s run for President. Can you believe that? Women saw that as a breakthrough in something very, very important. She didn’t win. And I think another thing that her race did was it showed sexism in our society. – Carolyn Maloney • I believe it is possible that we can turn today’s breakdown into a planetary breakthrough on one condition. We can do it if we can break free of a set of dominant but misleading ideas that are taking us down. – Frances Moore Lappé • I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India. – Siddhartha Mukherjee • I do enjoy manga but would not consider myself a ‘super-fan,’ only really connecting with certain works such as ‘Lone Wolf and Cub,’ or ‘Tekkon Kinkreet,’ the more breakthrough works, and ‘Akira,’ to me, is the daddy of them all. – Gerard Way • I don’t see anything beneficial about the US spending 100 billion dollars to go back to the moon unless we learn something new that will help us go to the moons of Saturn okay and so we ought to use that to breed new breakthroughs and to test new breakthroughs and to fund it. – Burt Rutan • I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt. – Thomas Friedman • I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn’t want me to record for the Think Tank album… so I took it as a sign to leave. – Graham Coxon • I had a total revelation with the feminist moment, with Carolee Scheeman and Marina Abromovic and of course Joan Jonas; that was a big breakthrough with me. And through them, I was introduced to Chris Burden and Bruce Nauman and Vito Acconci. You can almost call it a gang, because the works are always talking together. That stuff had a huge impact on me, but other than that, my interest had always been old paintings. – Ragnar Kjartansson • I had my breakthrough at 6 years old and received the Lord, Jesus Christ. I was so swept up in the spirit, I told my parents I had future plans to enter the priesthood. – Jonathan Cain • I have an older sister and my mom would dress us up identically, so in all of our pictures, we’re in these giant pink, poufy outfits. I remember when I was four or five, we all went to a theme park and I had to go to the bathroom but couldn’t hold it in anymore. Let’s just say, I had to buy a brand new outfit! But that moment was the first time I remember ever wearing something different from my sister at an event. It was my breakthrough moment when I decided I was never going to match my sister again! – Analeigh Tipton • I have spent forty-five years teasing out the universal principles of success that are necessary to create massive breakthroughs. I am committed to teaching and disseminating those around the world. I also believe that most transformational leaders are focusing too much on outer techniques and overlooking the important inner qualities of beingness and presence that are required to create real and lasting transformation in the world. – Jack Canfield • I just went into my studio and started to compile stuff. I was so happy with what was coming out that good momentum just carried over and when I would listen back to some of the riffs and some of the ideas, I was completely happy because I felt like, “wow, this was a breakthrough!” The ideas and the songs were really strong and I couldn’t wait to show everybody the stuff. – Charlie Benante • I love reading about all of the breakthroughs and all of the new tech, even just the little household things that are coming on the market. I’ve always been nerdy about that. – Zachary Levi • I never thought in terms of a “breakthrough” film. I wasn’t looking for fame or a career path into Hollywood. I was doing it for myself. I just wanted to make a film that I really loved. If other people liked it, great. But you can never guess what other people are going to like. – Terry Zwigoff • I think as far as straight actors playing gay roles, “Brokeback Mountain” was a big breakthrough. I’m pretty sure when they were casting that movie that – I think the story is, like you know, 10 to 15 other actors turned it down. – James Franco • I think if someone else other than Reagan, someone less of a hardliner, had been in power then the breakthrough in ending the Cold War would not have happened. – Eduard Shevardnadze • I think it would be a great tragedy to devote medical resources and genetic technological breakthroughs to purposes that are not to do with health or medicine, but instead are to do with satisfying the desires that are created by the consumer society. – Michael Sandel • I think President Barack Obama came to office with quite fundamental understandings in his mind about what’s possible and what’s not possible in the Middle East. The first, I would say, revolutionary breakthrough that he introduced is that the Middle East doesn’t matter to American geostrategy as much as we think. – Vali Nasr • I think we’re going to have to do better. Mr. Nixon talks about our being the strongest country in the world. I think we are today, but we were far stronger relative to the Communists 5 years ago. And what is of great concern is that the balance of power is in danger of moving with them. They made a breakthrough in missiles and by 1961, ‘2, and ‘3, they will be outnumbering us in missiles. – John F. Kennedy • I thought ‘Borat’ was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn’t some studio-produced script with 14 writers. – Steve Martin • I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it – well, it is dangerous – but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work – Harold Brodkey • I was reminded of the Sydney Harris cartoon that said ‘adding two numbers that have not been added before does not constitute a mathematical breakthrough’. – Ronald Graham • I watch mainly fiction. The films I like watching are films where you see people change, like with Boyhood. You see a moment in someone’s life where it’s a breakthrough. For me, the breakthrough in Boyhood is that amazing moment right at the end when he finds somebody he can feel relaxed with, and who will maybe be a friend for the rest of his life. I like that it doesn’t end in a love affair or marriage. It just ends in, “Wow, I found people I can relate to for the first people in my life. These people accept me, I like them.” – Kim Longinotto • I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success. – Joyce Meyer • I work from the body – I try to develop a language of the body. I’ve invented a term I call “corporeal writing” around that idea. I love teaching and collaborating around this idea, because no new breakthrough in literature ever happened because everyone was doing what was already there. – Lidia Yuknavitch • I write different kinds of sentences, depending on what the book is, and what the project is. I see my work evolving. I’m writing long sentences now, something I didn’t use to do. I had some kind of breakthrough, five or six years ago, in Invisible, and in Sunset Park after that. I discovered a new way to write sentences. And I find it exhilarating. – Paul Auster • I’m faster than the rest of you, if .. Because I’m a vampire,” Michael said, and it was some kind of breakthrough for him to say that. “If you get in trouble, I’ll be there.” “Nice,” Shane said. “I’m warming up to this bloodsucking thing, Mikey.” “No, you’re not.” “Okay, no, I’m not, but right now let’s pretend I am. – Rachel Caine • If it’s not broken, break it. That’s how new discoveries are made. That’s why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough. – Sylvester Stallone • If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can’t be breakthroughs. – Peter Diamandis • If you are predisposed to be patient, disciplined and psychologically appreciate the idea of buying bargains, then you’re likely to be good at it. If you have a need for action, if you want to be involved in the new and exciting technological breakthroughs of our time, that’s great, but you’re not a value investor, and you shouldn’t be one. – Seth Klarman • If you look at how the US economy has suffered over the last 15 or 20 years, it’s in significant part because we haven’t done the investments in research and development and infrastructure and other public goods that are necessary for our growth. And, unfortunately, we’re going to be feeling that overhang for a long time to come, because it’s the investments we made in the 1950s and ’60s and ’70s that result in some of the greatest technological breakthroughs that we enjoy today. – Jacob Hacker • In a world where routine production is footloose…competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away. – Robert Reich • In recent years, we have seen technology advance at lightning speed, allowing us to accomplish lifesaving feats never imagined before. It is our responsibility to ensure that these advances are used for positive medical breakthroughs, and not allowed to restrict rights or limit access to health insurance or job opportunities. – Evan Bayh • In the inner city, there’s a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I’ve gotta love me more than anybody else loves me. – Mary J. Blige • In the long struggle against sex trafficking, we finally have a breakthrough! – Nicholas D. Kristof • In thinking about nanotechnology today, what’s most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough. – K. Eric Drexler • Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation. – George Brown, Jr. • Innovation is not a big breakthrough invention every time. Innovation is a constant thing. But if you don’t have an innovative company [team], coming to work everyday to find a better way, you don’t have a company[team]. You’re getting ready to die on the vine. You’re always looking for the next innovation, the next niche, the next product improvement, the next service improvement. But always trying to get better. – Jack Welch • It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. – R. Buckminster Fuller • It is a high bar to say that it’s more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda [Gates] and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people. – Bill Gates • It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research. – Roger Wicker • It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do? – Hanif Kureishi • It’s funny, everywhere I go some people ask me whether it’s going to be a Latino breakthrough, some people ask me whether it’s going to be a female breakthrough, and then I’m reminded that five years ago we didn’t even know Barack Obama’s name. – Gwen Ifill • It’s irrational to assume you can ever truly evaluate yourself as a good or bad human being. You will never have enough information.That “bad person” at work who torments you might be an excellent father to his kids. That other “bad person” at work who screwed up royally today? That error might later lead to a huge breakthrough. We will never have enough info to holistically evaluate a person and score them in totality as “bad” or “good.” – David D. Burns • It’s not that we need to form new organizations. It’s simply that we have to awaken to new ways of thinking. I believe it makes no sense to spend a lot of time attacking the current realities. It is time to create the new models that have in them the complexity that makes the older systems obsolete. And to the extent that we can do that, and do that quickly, I think we can provide what will be necessary for a major breakthrough for the future. – Don Edward Beck • It’s your time for a breakthrough! Make up your mind to leave the past and the old you behind. Focus on giving birth to a new you….the real you. It is your time to create a turning point for the better in your life. It is your destiny to be healthy, happy and successful.Your future is open, full of possibility and promise! Buckle down and do whatever is required to create a life that you are proud of and a life that you deserve! Don’t look back!! Look ahead, move forward and make this your best year ever! You have the something special. You have GREATNESS within you! – Les Brown • I’ve done a number of projects where people go, ‘This is your breakthrough role,’ so I’ve stopped thinking that. – Matthew Rhys • I’ve found that often, just when you think you’ve hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment – Stedman Graham • I’ve had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I’ve seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way. – Jonathan Lethem • Just like the breakthroughs, the bad stuff always takes you by surprise. – Gail Giles • Launching a breakthrough idea is like shooting skeet. People’s needs change, so you must aim well ahead of the target to hit it. – Ray Kurzweil • Learning is the beginning of wealth. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize it that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do. – Albert Einstein • Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little chunk of humanity briefly realised its moral potential and flirted with its neurological destiny, a collective spiritual awakening that flared brilliantly until the barbaric and mediocre impulses of the species drew tight once more the curtains of darkness. – Tom Robbins • Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago. – Dalai Lama • MAD FREE is a conversation project, not an organization, but I’ve literally have seen women have breakthroughs in real time. They learn and connect. I’ve had more women I could count say one of our conversations inspired them to be bold and wonderful things like getting PHD’s or traveling to the continent. I am certainly far more inspired by the community of women than they are inspired. – Michaela Angela Davis • Manufacture, don’t just trade. There is money in manufacturing even though it is capital intensive. To achieve a big breakthrough, I had to start manufacturing the same product I was trading on; which is commodities. – Aliko Dangote • Many so-called pragmatists want nothing to do with space exploration or other kinds of ambitious endeavours that don’t have a clear payoff. This mentality is hugely damaging to our success as a civilization. Our desire to understand the universe is kindled by curiosity and wonder, and this has fuelled countless scientific breakthroughs. – Garry Kasparov • Maybe it’s wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing knowledge that we ourselves will someday die, and the love of snow are in reality not some sudden events; maybe they were always present. Maybe they never completely vanish, either. – Peter Høeg • Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, ‘I don’t get it, I don’t understand it. I think it’s too weird, I think it’s too unusual.’ – Marc Andreessen • My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers – Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few. – Terry Brooks • My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50…I had the strength for new deeds and ideas. – Edvard Munch • My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan’s Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did. – Peter Straub • My innovation message, specifically including energy, happened to be the same week that on Monday and Tuesday I announced the Breakthrough Energy Venture Group. Then on that Tuesday afternoon, in December, was when I sat down with him. I explained the US has great science here, this is where the market for these things is going to be. It connects to less pollution, it connects to U.S. jobs, it connects to security, not needing the energy coming from far away. – Bill Gates • My position hasn’t changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change. – Avi Rubin • Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions. – Frans Johansson • New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works…images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models – surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works – promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations. – Peter Senge • Not even God can make something fair out of what is intrinsically unfair. Only one thing can be done. Something must break through the crust of unfairness and create a chance for a new fairness. Only forgiveness can make the breakthrough. – Lewis B. Smedes • Obama is hardly the first president to seek rapprochement with our adversaries and reconciliation with our enemies, of course. But his determination to make nice – even in the face of clear and repeated rejection from the other side – is unparalleled. For Obama and his team, diplomacy with rogue regimes is an end in itself, and any deal, however one-sided, is a win, especially one that the White House communications mavens think that friendly media will call a ‘breakthrough’ or ‘historic.’- Stephen F. Hayes • Of all the early breakthrough rock and roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers. – Cub Koda • One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein’s four rules of writing, one of which was, ‘You must finish what you write.’ I never had any problem with the first one, ‘You must write’ – I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing. – George R. R. Martin • One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity. – Brian Eno • One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they’ve failed more often than everyone else. – Seth Godin • One very important aspect of art is that it makes people aware of what they know and don’t know they know… Once the breakthrough is made, there is a permanent expansion of awareness. But there is always a reaction of rage, of outrage, at the first breakthrough… So the artist, then, expands awareness. And once the breakthrough is made, this becomes part of the general awareness. – William S. Burroughs • Part of battle has been getting Hollywood to recognize that comic books and superheroes are not synonymous. That’s been a huge breakthrough, just in recent years really, and as a result of that recent breakthrough, we’ve had movies like 300, Road to Perdition, and A History of Violence, that very few people realize were based on comic books and graphic novels. It’s very important to make that differentiation. – Michael Uslan • People tend to think of breakthroughs in medicine as a new drug, a laser, or a high-tech surgical procedure. They often have a hard time believing that the simple choices that we make in our lifestyle. What we eat, how we respond to stress, whether or not we smoke cigarettes, how much exercise we get, and the quality of our relationships and support can be as powerful as drugs and surgery. And they often are. – Dean Ornish • Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson’s. – Mort Kondracke • Praise works best at the start, before the miracle, before the breakthrough, before the restoration. – Brian Houston • Prayer is the burden of revival; repentance is the breakthrough of revival; evangelism is the blessing of revival; holiness is the bounty of revival. – Steve Camp • Psychological breakdowns are actually breakthroughs to enlightenment. – R. D. Laing • Qatar is giving 2.8% of our GDP to research. This is something again that is a breakthrough, as nobody was even thinking of research as a tool or component for advancement in this part of the world. – Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned • Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how the world is. – Anton Zeilinger • Rockets have remained fundamentally unchanged, except for a few exceptions for the last almost 50 years. So, for there to be a fundamental shift in rocketry and getting into space, there almost has to be a breakthrough in propulsion. Either in how to bring the price down, or how to more efficiently get people up into space and the key barrier is the expense of a rocket. – Leroy Chiao • Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming. Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months to develop can be produced in a matter of days. – Tim O’Reilly • Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting. – James D. Watson • Since the moment of self-consciousness comes to a permanent end – and a new journey begins- is such a decisive stroke or milestone in the contemplative life, I can only speculate why so little has been said of this breakthrough; in fact , I may never get over the silence on the part of writers who say nothing about this second movement. – Bernadette Roberts • Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy. – Ted Nordhaus • So as long as I’m a human being and I’m not perfect, I’m able to say I’m having some growing pains. Because in order to sustain where you are once you made such a breakthrough that everyone is looking at you, now everyone is like, ‘Ooh, is she gonna make a mistake?’ Yes, I’m going to make a mistake. Yes, I’m still gonna do things. – Mary J. Blige • So not only are we saving lives now, we’re creating the incentive for the breakthroughs that over the next generation will mean we can take AIDS, malaria and TB and bring those numbers dramatically down. – Bill Gates • Someone once told me that the finer points of devotion are about the size of a pinhole, and there are millions of them. And if you could connect each dot, then you’ve got a diagram of what you think you thought you knew, and if you’re willing to admit that you know nothing…you have the blueprint for a breakthrough. – Shane Koyczan • Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation. – Cherrie Moraga • Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem. – Bill Johnson • Sometimes when you are the closest to your breakthrough the pressure is the greatest. You have come too far to give up now! – Joyce Meyer • Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling. – Naveen Jain • Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it’s a relay race. – Nguyen Quyen • Technology has a great deal to do with it. The Panaflex camera was a big breakthrough when it came along; it changed everything, because now you could shoot from the perspective of a person riding in the backseat of a car. – Vilmos Zsigmond • Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and simpler where they are made not in the fear of men, but only in the sight of God. He wants to give us today the power which we need for our work. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer • That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated. The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs. – Rem Koolhaas • That’s the best part of the game, to see the smiles on their faces and the breakthroughs they have as individuals. – Russell Westbrook • The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas. – Nicholas Negroponte • The activities you are most afraid of are the activities that can cause a breakthrough in your success. Step into them. – Darren Hardy • The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react. – Erwin Rommel • The best way to honor past accomplishments is by building on top of their breakthroughs. – Bill Johnson • The biggest breakthrough in the next 50 years will be the discovery of extraterrestrial life. We have been searching for it for 50 years and found nothing. That proves life is rarer than we hoped, but does not prove that the universe is lifeless. We are only now developing the tools to make our searches efficient and far-reaching, as optical and radio detection and data processing move forward. – Freeman Dyson • The business of the endgame is maneuvring to control critical squares, advancing or blockading passed pawns, preparing a breakthrough by the king, or exploiting the subtle superiority of one piece over another. – Pal Benko • The expense of getting into space is the rocket launch, the rocket itself. Rocket’s right now, commercial rockets cost probably somewhere between $50, or $120, or $150 million per launch. And those are all expendable. That is, you’ve got to buy a new rocket for each launch. So, that really is the critical part. If there was some kind of really, a revolutionary breakthrough and the price of rockets fell by an order of magnitude, I mean, just imagine what that would do as far as getting access to more ordinary people. – Leroy Chiao • The FDA, NCI and ACS, and the large treatment centres work to eliminate choice of cancer therapies, particulary better ones. They openly attack breakthroughs made by “mavericks”, which they define as anyone outside their ranks. Folks, any serious study of how these entities work together to destroy hopeful approaches to cancer reveals a trail of corruption, conspiracy, dishonesty, and inhumanity that warrants desigantion of evil……..We continue to use them not because they work, but because those who perform them have so vigorously eliminated any other choice. – Julian Whitaker • The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible. – Bruce Lee • The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do. – Brian Tracy • The greatest existential risks over the coming decades or century arise from certain, anticipated technological breakthroughs that we might make in particular, machine super intelligence, nanotechnology and synthetic biology. Each of these has an enormous potential for improving the human condition by helping cure disease, poverty, etc. But one could imagine them being misused, used to create powerful weapon systems, or even some kind of accidental destructive scenario, where we suddenly are in possession of some technology that’s far more powerful than we are able to control or use wisely. – Nick Bostrom • The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. – Peter Singer • The man in the street has unfortunately been sold the idea that the breakthrough cure for cancer is just around the corner… The very prospect of effective treatment seems so remote that it doesn’t even enter into the speculative day-to-day conversation of people engaged in cancer research… New treatments have not produced any detectable decline in the total annual cancer mortality, even for children. – John Cairns • The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, the more it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation. – Vijay Govindarajan • The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people – as remarkable as the telephone. – Steve Jobs • The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human. – John Naisbitt • The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. – Bill Gates • The prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century was both a cause and an effect of social and scientific breakthroughs that have redefined human life. The biggest change is simply that people live longer and have far more freedom to think about things other than staying alive. – David Bornstein • The quality of American patents has been deteriorating for years; they are increasingly issued for products and processes that are not truly innovative – things like the queuing system for Netflix, which was patented in 2003. Yes, it makes renting movies a snap, but was it really a breakthrough deserving patent protection? – Robert Pozen • The Refugee Convention of 1951 was a major breakthrough, outlining the rights of those displaced across borders as well as the legal obligations of states to protect them. – Kofi Annan • The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable. – Elon Musk • The song This Kiss was definitely my breakthrough song. After that, Breathe was my breakthrough album. – Faith Hill • The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality. – Jean Cocteau • The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months. – Eddie Van Halen • The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society. – Mike Fitzpatrick • The transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the legitimacy of the transfer. The consequences of this breakthrough are hard to overstate. – Marc Andreessen • The urge to quit is strongest just before breakthroughs occur. Those are the times when it’s most important to stay focused and committed. You will encounter the urge to quit many times. Get over it. Quitting is not an option; always be prepared to give it one more day. – Matthew Barnett • The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art. – Penn Jillette • The work of cultivating experiences called “peak experiences” or “mystic moments” or “breakthroughs” until they become more accessible is part of the essential nature of genuine spiritual discipline. These are moments, at the very least, of approaching the experiential verification that there does exist something Higher within and perhaps also outside of ourselves. Moments at the very least of approaching what the religions call God. – Jacob Needleman • There are no drive-thru breakthroughs. Breakthroughs take time. – Joyce Meyer • There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about. – Helen Frankenthaler • There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others’ disruptive breakthroughs. – Jay Samit • There is no breakthrough without a breakdown. – Tony Robbins • There is not ultimate breakthrough; what we find in the development of a creative life is an open-ended series of provisional breakthroughs. In this journey there is no endpoint, because it is the journey into the soul. – Stephen Nachmanovitch • There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer. – Bill Gates • There’s so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we’re going to get through it. Just be strong. – Mary J. Blige • These were in the days before anybody thought to criticize Congressmen, let alone first ladies, for making money on speeches. So Eleanor raked in quite a bit of cash that she may have put, for all I know, to good uses, or maybe not. I just don’t know. But I don’t think she was any great literary breakthrough. – William A. Rusher • This amazing breakthrough full-length revolutionary audio uses a powerful new combination of a subliminal hypnotic induction AND beautiful original music (created with a really cool ancient musical instrument) AND brand-new subliminal clearing commands ALL designed to begin to clear your unconscious blocks of anything and everything in the way of your attracting what you really want – and this incredible one-hour audio does it without any effort at all on your part! – Joe Vitale • This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton’s famous phrase. Great breakthroughs are closer to what happens in a flood plain: a dozen separate tributaries converge, and the rising waters lift the genius high enough that he or she can see around the conceptual obstructions of the age. – Steven Johnson • This will be a week that I change your sheets! Don’t try to rest the same way you’ve rested in the past, for I AM remaking your bed to rest in. Know that I AM causing your house to be reordered and redirecting your steps. And because your bed is being made, stay focused and up with Me, until the breakthrough is seen in your life. – Chuck Pierce • To have a breakthrough, you must consciously connect with the invisible forces that are everywhere around you, urging you to go beyond your old conditioning. – Deepak Chopra • To have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think. – Newt Gingrich • To me the biggest breakthrough was when we did Terminator 2 that just opened the door for Jurassic and all of the others and that was as big as when we did motion control on Star Wars. But I don’t see another big thing coming. – Dennis Muren • To save the planet, we do not need miraculous technical breakthroughs, or vast amounts of capital. Essentially we need a radical change in our thinking and behaviour. – Ted Trainer • To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now ‘heros du cinema.’ This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris. – A. J. Liebling • To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master. – Rajneesh • Today, nearly every competitive advantage of the past has been commoditized. Creativity is the one thing that can’t be outsourced. The one thing that can separate a company, team, or individual from the competitive set. Today, precision execution is merely the ante to play. Sustained differentiation can only come from breakthrough creativity. – Josh Linkner • True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses. – Peter Diamandis • Understand that the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows you are closest to your breakthrough. He’d leave you alone if he thought you were going to live in mediocrity. If you keep pressing on toward your promise, through faith and patience, you will get there. – Joel Osteen • Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The smart people dont. – Burt Rutan • We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. – Dane Cook • We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. When you’re headed for a breakthrough moment, it’s kind of scary because you say, ‘If I break through then I have to make great change in my life.’ – Dane Cook • We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough. – Harold S. Kushner • We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad – amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash. – Steven Johnson • We don’t have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy? – Robert Lanza • We have a strong military deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan. In countries like Syria, we need a diplomatic breakthrough to end the war. In Libya, the country must first of all be stabilized to stop IS. This means supporting the Libyan government, including in terms of security. We don’t want to repeat the mistakes of the past in that country. The situation is extremely dangerous and the next days could be decisive. – Paolo Gentiloni • We live at the threshold of a universal recognition that the human being is not mere matter, but a potent, energetic field of consciousness. Modalities of the past millennium are quickly giving way to breakthrough technologies wherein we heal ourselves at the level of all true healing, which is spirit. – Michael Beckwith • We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs… are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war. – William Perry • We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, “Hey, we’ll put significant money into [energy innovations] when they’re ready to spin out probably into startup companies.” – Bill Gates • Well technologically and so forth, it’s a breakthrough, and yet [Birth of a Nation,] it’s very white supremacist to the core in terms of the narrative content. – Cornel West • What appears to be a breakdown can often be a breakthrough…. IF you understand God’s grace – Carl Lentz • What drives me? Surrounding myself with amazing talent to craft a breakthrough product which can be used by millions of people to change the world. – Mike McCue • What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined. – Archibald MacLeish • What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions. – Camille Paglia • What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you’re slamming your head against the wall. So it’s nice to make a breakthrough and not kind of lying there with your head bleeding. – Lewis Black • What we are now doing with the victory, and I agree with you if you condemn that and I condemn whole-heartedly the trivial bullshit it is to go after a man who makes a scientific breakthrough and all that we as women — organized women — do is to fret about his shirt? – Ayaan Hirsi Ali • What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don’t just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else. – Steven Johnson • When I made a breakthrough as an actor, people started to say, ‘Who’s that bloke with the funny name?’ They advised me to change it, saying it would never be put up in lights outside theaters because they couldn’t afford the electricity. But I would never contemplate changing it. It’s who I am. – Pete Postlethwaite • When I was 18, I went to a Baptist church with my girlfriend, and had a breakthrough when a pastor laid hands on me on an altar call. I wept that evening and realized how numb I had become with God and how He was calling to me for restoration. I received that blessing and went on to raising my three children in a Lutheran Church in the Bay Area as a member of Journey. – Jonathan Cain • When things get rough, a breakthrough is just on the other side of the pain. – Shirley MacLaine • When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology? – Theodore Zeldin • When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner. – Joyce Meyer • When you make a breakthrough it is a moment of scientific exhilaration because you have been on this search and seem to have found it. But it is also a moment where I at least feel closeness to the creator in the sense of having now perceived something that no human knew before but God knew all along. – Francis Collins • When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible. – Marianne Williamson • While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner. – Mike Pence • Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough! – Brian Houston • Without risks, there can’t be breakthroughs. – Peter Diamandis • YOU are on the verge of complete breakthrough in every area of your life. Spiritually, Financially, and Relationally God has shown me that this is a season of victory for His people. As I went deeper in the Spirit the Lord revealed that before the breakthrough comes, certain things must be dealt with. Specifically, there must be a complete defeat of your enemies! – Paula White • You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three. – Sam Altman • You have to go through the darkness to truly know the light. This may sound like a cliche, but it’s true nonetheless. Often the greatest doubts occur just before a breakthrough. – Surya Das • You never do arrive at a destination. You have to work at it and take ownership of the process. What resonates at age 25 is likely to change by age 35 and 45. The process never ends. Realizing this has been a big breakthrough for me. – Robert S. Kaplan • You never know how close you are to a breakthrough. It may be right around the corner. Don’t quit! – Joyce Meyer • Your doubts are not the product of accurate thinking, but habitual thinking. Years ago you excepted flawed conclusions as correct, begin to live your life as if those warped ideas about your potential were true, and ceased the bold experiment in living that brought you many breakthrough behaviors as a child. – Price Pritchett

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Star Sightings: Kerry Washington Receives Top Honors for Philanthropic Work, Nick and Joe Jonas Host Dinner Series in NYC!

Kerry Washington headed back to her hometown to receive a major honor!

The Scandal star was celebrated at the inaugural Bronx Children’s Museum Gala in the Bronx, New York on Tuesday. The event raised $520,000 to help fund access to the arts, music, dance, environmental studies, and STEAM-based exhibits and programs for the more than 250,000 children living in the borough.

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The View's Sunny Hostin, A fellow Bronx native and BCM board member, emceed the event.

Comedian Tracy Morgan (who is also from the Bronx) was on hand to help auction a variety of items. which included a visit to the set of Scandal in Los Angeles, California, and a meet-and-greet at Jennifer Lopez’s All I Have show in Las Vegas.

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Over on the west coast, Carol Burnett was honored with The Colleagues Champion of Children Award during the 29th Annual Colleagues Spring Luncheon and Oscar de la Renta event at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

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Amy Poehler, who is executive producing Burnett's upcoming ABC pilot, Household Name, presented her with the award, which honors those who have made a lasting impact on the lives of children. Former ET host Mary Hart was the Master of Ceremonies at the luncheon, which benefited the Children’s Institute, Inc (CII).

The celebrations continued around town as NYLON magazine hosted their annual Young Hollywood issue with May cover star Rowan Blanchard.

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The invite-only soiree brought together some of Hollywood’s freshest faces at celeb hotspot Avenue, adjacent to the highly-anticipated Dream Hollywood hotel in Hollywood, California.

Guests were treated to light bites and specialty cocktails provided by Tequila Avión. Celebs in attendance included Blanchard, Bella Thorne, Delilah Belle, Amelia Gray, Amber Rose, Alexis Knapp, Alli Simpson, Shaun Ross, Jhene Aiko, Ireland Baldwin, Chantel Jeffries, ZEDD, Christina Milian and Harley Quinn Smith.

Ashley Graham is no stranger to the red carpet. She prepped her smile for the Met Gala by using Crest Whitestrips with Light on Monday.

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Vanderpump Rules star Tom Schwartz was spotted chowing down on the new Chicken Schnitzel sandwich from Wienerschnitzel in North Hollywood, California.

UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation held their 22nd Annual Taste for a Cure event honoring Scooter Braun and his wife, Yael Cohen, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles last Friday.

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The couple received the Gil Nickel Humanitarian Award for their dedication to high priority cancer research and humanitarian efforts. James Corden was on hand to present the couple the award.

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Angela Bassett hosted the event which boasted a guest list of star-studded attendees like Jussie Smollet, Matt McGorry, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Fred Savage, Jennifer Grey, and Black-Ish star Yara Shahidi.

Nick and Joe Jonas hosted a D’USSE Dinner Series in New York City complete with a four course dinner and free flowing D’USSE cocktails, on April 25. 

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Last week, Kelly Osbourne looked chic in an all black ensemble, while hosting the official launch party of the April/May 2017 BELLA New York cover party at Bagatelle in New York City.

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A day earlier, Katie Couric and husband John Molner were back in the kitchen with Sur La Table for series two of "Full Plate with Katie & John." The cooking couple used the HUROM HZ Slow Juicer to make a meal with Moroccan lamb chops, green couscous, and Tahini. Yum!

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Matthew McConaughey hung out backstage at the Wild Turkey Bourbon bar during the Mack, Jack & McConaughey charity gala concert in Austin, Texas. The two-day charity event benefits the actor's Just keep Livin’ Foundation, which helps families in need in the Austin area.

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One Republic held an intimate concert at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London, exclusively for Hilton Honors members on Saturday.

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The special performance was part of Hilton’s Music Happens Here program, which provides Hilton Honors members with access to top concerts and private meet-and-greets with chart-topping artists, among other perks.

Haylie Duff, and daughter Ryan, who turns 2 years old on May 11, enjoyed some delicious Mrs. Thinster’s cookie thins from the comforts of their home in Los Angeles on April 26. 

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13 Reasons Why stars Tommy Dorfman and Brandon Flynn stopped by the ESPRIT by Opening Ceremony: SS17 Launch Party with SVEDKA Vodka in Los Angeles on April 27.

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Josh Groban was honored at the Annual National Dance Institute (NDI) gala, which raised over $1.4 million for their award-winning arts education programs, at the PlayStation Theater in New York City, last Monday.

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Alec Baldwin and his wife, Hilaria Baldwin, were also in attended, along with three-time Tony Award nominee Terrence Mann. Baldwin conducted the live auction alongside auctioneer CK Swett. Actor Bill Irwin served as the event’s emcee.

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The Arrangement star Josh Henderson, and Ballers actress Arielle Kebbel played corn hole at the Boots On Stage Presents: The 2nd Annual Shindig, In the Desert, in La Quinta, California on April 30.

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Artists, celebrities, and taste-makers, turned out for some fun in the sun and live music at the exclusive VIP event held outside the Stagecoach music festival. Country music star, Tyler Rich was on hand to provide live music, while guests enjoyed complimentary cocktails from Casamigos and Budweiser.

On April 24, Real Housewives of New York star Luann D'agostino arrived at the ATTON Hotel in Miami, Florida and caught up with Real Housewives of Miami stars Lisa Hochstein and Marysol Patton.

After introducing her husband Tom D'agostino, the crew enjoyed rejuvenating facials and treatments from Hochstein's Medspa.

Internet sensation “Hot Vet” Dr. Evan Antin partnered with Swiffer to demonstrate the joys of new pet ownership with the help from the Bideawee Animal Shelter in New York on April 26.

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Bill Nye "The Science Guy,” met with Dee Lawrence, co-founder of Cool Effect backstage at the March for Science D.C. to discuss #TonOfReasons in Washington D.C. on April 22.

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Model and actress Molly Sims celebrated Mother's Day early this year by curating the perfect “Mother’s Day Gift Collection”  to help others shop for the special Moms in their life.

The mother of three curated over 25 gorgeous gifts, which include cute baby toys, soothing cradles and baby jogger strollers .

A portion of the proceeds from Sims' collection on eBay will help raise funds for Baby2Baby.

To purchase the special "Mother’s Day Gift Collection," available until May 10, visit eBay.com/molly-sims.

Amazon’s Academy Award winning film Manchester by the Sea is now available on Amazon Prime Video and to celebrate the launch and success of the film, Amazon is giving back to the city that inspired it all.

The company will be sending specially curated packages to every home in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, with a one-year Amazon Prime membership and Wickedly Prime Popcorn.

Bethany Mota, Megan Nicole, and Claudia Sulweski teamed up for an Aloha Therapy launch party event in New York City to celebrate the new Hawaiian Tropic Silk Hydration Weightless Face SPF 30.

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Celebrity chef and author Ayesha Curry is all about fresh ingredients, she was spotted earlier this week shopping for the perfect mango in New York.

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Pretty Little Liars star Troian Bellisario joined Raymond Cloosterman, CEO of Rituals Cosmetics, during a special ribbon cutting ceremony in celebration of the new Rituals Fifth Avenue Store in New York City.

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We all have our childhood favorites, the books that ignited our love of reading and stick with us through adulthood and are treasured memories.  From Harry Potter to Narnia, there are books that remain in our consciousness for our whole lives, but what about our forgotten favorites?  What about the books we read until the spines fell apart?  How about the ones we circled in the Scholastic book catalogue and begged our parents to buy?  There are a bunch of books that I used to love but either haven’t thought about in years or forgot about completely.

Here are a few of my old favorites:

  Redwall by Brian Jacques

These books were absolutely everywhere when I was a kid.  I think I only read two, but my older sister has read a bunch of them so they were always on our shelves.  The first book was published in 1986 and the series ended up being 22 books long.  It takes place at Redwall Abbey and features a cast of mice, badgers, rats, etc.

Redwall actually factors into my only bad experience with a librarian.  I was in the third grade (about 8 years old) and pulled Redwall off the shelf at my elementary school library.  The librarian told me I was too young to read it and refused to let me borrow it!  I eventually managed to talk her into lending me the book, and I read it cover to cover out of spite.  Ha.

The Bailey School Kids by Marcia T. Jones and Debbie Dadey

These were a big feature of my early reading days.  Set in the Bailey School, the kids are absolutely convinced that their teachers are supernatural beings (looking back, I kind of feel sorry for the teachers).  Featuring excellent titles like Vampires Don’t Wear Polka Dots and Pirates Don’t Wear Pink Sunglasses, there were about 80 of these books published between the original series and its spin-offs. I must have read at least ten of them, I had no idea there were so many.

  The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander

One of the best fantasy series for kids!  I loved Lloyd Alexander anyway because of the amazing book Time Cat (about a time-travelling cat, of course) when I was introduced to The Chronicles of Prydain.  The series follows the adventures of Taran, one of the ultimate Farmboys of Destiny, and features a cast of characters like Princess Eilonwy, the unofficial bard Fflewddur Fflam, and an ocular pig named Hen Wen.  I’ve read the entire series at least once, but read the first one, The Book of Three, so many times that the spine probably wore out.

This was the edition I owned as a kid!

If any of this is sounding familiar, Disney’s first PG-rated animated film was based on the first two books in the series.  If you haven’t seen The Black Cauldron, drop everything right now and watch it.  It’s some scary stuff.

Pretty sure the Horned King made me cry in daycare

Gwinna by Barbara Berger

This was an early factor in my lifelong obsession with beautiful books.  My grandmother gave this book to either myself or my sister as a gift, and I absolutely loved it.  It’s about a couple who desperately want a child, but have not had one.  The Mother of Owls offers to help them, but only if they send the child back to her on its 12th birthday to learn all kinds of magical goodness.  Gwinna has wings – wings! – and plenty of animal friends.  I desperately wanted to be her when I was a kid.

Me in about 60 years

The Magic School Bus by Joanna Cole

Beep beep!

Any kid who loved Bill Nye the Science Guy also loved The Magic School Bus.  These were a series of picture books that followed a class of students and their fabulous teacher Ms Frizzle on a series of ludicrous and incredible field trips on board her magic school bus, of course.  They visit volcanoes, go inside the human body, and so much more.  There’s also an equally amazing TV series, which is apparently available on YouTube.

Literally any kid in the world would trade places with you, Arnold.  Stop complaining.

I kind of still want to be Ms. Frizzle when I grow up.  She has a sentient school bus that can turn into a spaceship, a pet iguana named Liz, and has a fabulous sense of style.

  Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar

As an adult, I’m kind of on Mrs. Gorf’s side

You might recognize the author’s name as the person who wrote Holes, another incredible book.  But it all started with Sideways Stories from Wayside School.  Wayside School was supposed to be 30 classrooms built on one floor, but the builder accidentally built a school 30 stories high, with one classroom on each floor (he’s very sorry about this).  The books follow Mrs. Jewls’ class, which is on the 30th floor. She replaced Mrs. Gorf, a teacher who would turn bad children into apples.  She hated children, but loved apples.  I think you can probably get a sense of how ridiculous these books were.

There were sadly only three of these books, but I also got my hands on the artithmatic spin-offs.  They made absolutely no sense, but I didn’t mind.

  Animorphs by K. A. Applegate

It was impossible to be cool and not read Animorphs when I was a kid.  Jake, Marco, Cassie, Rachel, and Tobias stumble upon a dying alien who gifts them the power to morph into any animal they touch.  Earth is being invaded by Yeerks, which are BRAIN SLUGS, and the Animorphs must fight them.  I’m pretty sure they were telepathic too.

There were 54 of these books, which is kind of incredible.  There was also a TV show that ran for two seasons on Nickelodeon, which I remember very little of.  These books were the best.  I had a silent competition with the annoying kid next to me in the fourth grade to see who had more Animorphs books.  We’d quietly pile them on the corner of our desks and eye each other’s stack.  I can’t remember who won, but I hope it was me.

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark written by Alvin Schwartz and illustrated by Stephen Gammell.

Who let us read these?  They, along with sticker collecting and Pogs, were all the rage when I was in the first grade.  Why?  Why did I read these?  I can still remember some of the stories so clearly.  There were three of these books: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones.  The best/worst part of these books were the amazing illustrations, which are completely horrifying.  We would gather around and read them out loud to each other while pretending we were actually going to sleep that night.

HarperCollins rereleased these books in 2011 to celebrate the 30th anniversary, but chose to go with new and less frightening illustrations.  This backfired pretty dramatically because anyone who has read these books know the illustrations are the best part.

Ahhh!

Nooo!

Harold still haunts my dreams

Goosebumps by R. L. Stine

I’m sure that anyone who was a kid at any point in the last 30 years knows about Goosebumps.  We all loved them.  Even I, who is scared of absolutely everything, was obsessed with these books.  Because most of us couldn’t quite read them on our own when they were super popular, my Kindergarten teacher would let us bring in copies of Goosebumps books and she’s read a few chapters a day to us out loud.  How cool is that?

I brought in this one to class, but it scared me so I sat in the corner and tried to not listen.

There are 62 books in the Goosebumps series and a bunch of spin-offs.  They featured kids getting caught up in haunted situations or stuck with creepy dolls and such.

    There are so many more, but I had to trim down my list because it was getting a little long.  Have you read any of these?  What are some of your favorite books from your childhood?

Forgotten favorites of a 90's childhood We all have our childhood favorites, the books that ignited our love of reading and stick with us through adulthood and are treasured memories. 

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Sonichu 10 Page 93

MAGI-CHAN {narration}: The janitors needed a lot of 409 cleaner to clear all of Evan’s blood and guts off the floor. Sean was hung from the ceiling by his wrists; Allison, Bill, and Kellie shot him dead as target practice.

MAGI-CHAN {narration}: And Christian did not restrain Mao, because it was not required for the psychic treatment.

SFX: *Snap*

MAO: Aughh!!!

SFX: *Crack*

SFX: *Snlack*

SFX: *Snag*

CHRIS {thought}: My amends have been made.

“409 cleaner” refers to Formula 409, a brand of cleaning sprays. Though their official website doesn’t list “human blood and flesh” as things their products are known to clean, it does say their multi-purpose cleaner can, and I quote, “[pounce] on grease like a hungry kid on birthday cake”, and, I mean, if it can cut through grease, I’m sure it’ll help Chris in his particular little clean up. 

Chris historically said he had the least issue with Sean, and thus his death is the least protracted. But it is still done by “people he has wronged”, here three of the human characters shown in Moon Pals, Bill Scwartz, Kellie Felix, and Allison Amber. Kellie’s age is somewhat ambiguous, so she might be the second underage girl to participate in this bloodbath. They shoot Sean dead as “target practice”, whatever that may mean (none of them ever pick up firearms again, so they probably aren’t training for anything, unless there’s something in their personal lives they aren’t telling us about). If anything, they should have had target practice beforehand so they don’t accidentally shoot each other or something while trying to shoot Sean. 

The trio shoot Sean at least twelve times, at least based on what appear to be the exit wounds made by some of their bullets in Sean’s back. Also, for some reason, the door is open behind them, which would have potentially given Sean a way to escape had he been able to break from the rope surrounding his wrists.

Wait, didn’t Bill just say a few pages ago that he liked saving lives?

As Sean bleeds out in another room, Christian prepares to execute Mao personally, the only Asperpedia Four member to get a solo execution. It has previously been established that Chris can use any power from any of the EHPs he has created, which includes telekinesis from Magi-Chan. When he uses these powers, his eyes turn purple, like Magi-Chan’s fur (but not his eyes, his eyes are yellow). Chris moves Mao’s arms until they bend so far back they break. I notice now that all the members of the Asperpedia Four were dressed in white for this occasion, presumably to accentuate the blood. Chris does the same for Mao’s legs, leaving him literally a broken man. Chris does to Mao what he threatened to do to Jason - he breaks him dead. Crippling Mao apparently wasn’t enough to actually kill him, and thus Chris has to burst his heart with the same psychic powers. As Mao dies, Chris, with one hundred and six bodies under his belt this issue alone, finally declares that “[his] amends have been made”, signifying that he has finally achieved all he wanted to do this issue - kill anyone who so much as looked at him funny and proclaim his superiority to the world. Chris has finally achieved his director amenities.

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Sonichu 10 Page 83

SURGEON A: We have to save Simonla! She’s the best builder around!

SURGEON B: Yes she is. Her friends at Quick-Sturdy Construction are paying big to keep her alive now.

SURGEON C: Oh, no! We’re losing her!!!

SIMONLA {in Wild’s memory}: I love you soo much!

SIMONLA {in Wild’s memory}: You always have the tool I need when I’m at work.

SIMONLA {in Wild’s memory}: I enjoy working together with you on our projects, sweetheart.

SIMONLA {in Wild’s memory}: Oh, my God! We’re having a baby! You will make a great father, Wild.

SIMONLA {in Wild’s memory}: Dang, this egg weighs a lot. I appreciate you for carrying it around for me. You are so strong.

SIMONLA {possibly in Wild’s memory? Maybe these are her last words?}: I will always love you and our little Sandy…

CHRIS {on TV}: Having created Simonla, I had gone against Evan’s wishes, and I apologize for that.

BILL SCHWARTZ THE SCIENTIST: Wild, we’ve done all we could, but I’m afraid Simonla’s internal injuries were too much… I’m sorry.

WILD: I see. Thank you, Dr. Bill Schwartz.

BILL SCHWARTZ {thought}: I gave up working for Giovanni to save lives… I hate these bad days…

MAGI-CHAN {telepathy}: Wild, I have found Simonla’s murderer and his crew.

WILD {thought/telepathy}: Revenge…

WILD {telepathy}: I’ll kill that S.O.B. for killing my sweetheart!!!

MAGI-CHAN {telepathy}: Hold up! The fiends are in jail now; their trial is in a week; be patient, Wild.

The emergency surgeons attending Simonla let loose an unsettling statement about the way CWCville is run before they announce Simonla is beyond saving - her coworkers at a CWC-branded construction company are paying the hospital specifically to keep Simonla alive. While most hospitals do require some sort of payment for their services, the wording suggests that this company is bribing the hospital to prioritize Simonla, who has previously been established to be lethally wounded, over their other patients. Also alarming is the fact that the company has “Quick” in its name, likely an allusion to “CWC”. Is this company state run? Is, however indirectly, Chris bribing his own hospital?

As Simonla slips away (offscreen, despite Evan’s instructions), Wild reminisces about their five-month-long relationship. As noted by the audiobooks, Wild’s hand placement in this panel makes it seem like he is masturbating as he waits for updates on his sweetheart. He is also seated on their egg, which is essentially sitting on his baby.

Bill Schwartz, former Team Rocket grunt and inadvertent creator of Black Sonichu, seen for the first time since Sonichu 1, emerges to announce Simonla’s death to Wild. This is also the first time in the comic we’ve seen him from the front, as his appearances in Sonichu 1 had him face away from the camera constantly. In order to retcon away the fan-made story of Bill’s adventures on the moon, Chris comes up with his own brief story for Bill’s whereabouts in the nine issues since we last saw him - at some point during these nine issues, Bill had a change of heart about working to clone super powerful beings to feed Giovanni’s ego, so he left Team Rocket to become a doctor, preferring to save lives over taking them. Bill describes Simonla’s cause of death as “internal injuries”, which is similar to a phrase Chris has used to describe when he accidentally punctures a sex doll while having sex with it, which seemingly happens on the regular. Bill also makes a snarky thought comment on his way back to Simonla’s corpse, completely ruining any mood this scene could have had.

As Wild begins to cry, Magi-Chan pops into his head to announce that the rest of the Asperpedia Four have been apprehended, and Wild immediately turns wrathful. How Magi got a hold of Sean and Mao, who seemingly were not present at the mall while their compatriots were killing Simonla, is not known. Either they were at CWCville Mall, just out of sight running support, or Alec, Evan, and/or Simonchu have already been questioned and let slip that there were more conspirators. Wild threatens to kill the sons of bitches (despite only appearing in an initialization, it seems like unusually harsh language for Sonichu) who killed Simonla, until Magi-Chan tells him to let the legal system do its job, though Wild will eventually get his chance to brutalize Evan Christopher George in a few short pages.

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The 49 best Startup and Business Books to read

Zero to One by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable by Seth Godin

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't by Jim Collins

The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank

Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Shwartz

Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson

The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki

Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups Early Days by Jessica Livingston

The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries

ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever by David Heinemeier Hansson

The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh

Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson

The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz

The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande

The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau

Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Kenneth Cukier

The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh

Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe

Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson

The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable by Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by John Wood

The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding by Laura Ries and Al Ries

Rich Dad Poor Dad : What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That The Poor And Middle Class Don't by Robert T. Kiyosaki

Outliers: Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich by Thomas Ferriss

How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be : The 25 Principles of Success by Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Litt

Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto by Adam Werbach

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change by Louis V Gerstner, Jr

The Ten Faces of Innovation by Tom Kelley

Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin

The Innovator's Dilemma by clayton m. christensen

The Paypal Wars by Eric M. Jackson

One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com by Richard Brandt

Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky

The Curse of the Mogul by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave

The Accidental Billionaires : The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich

Lean In : Women, Work and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg

High Output Management by Andy Grove