122 Quotes by Leonard Mlodinow

They required three thousand Jews, the man said, and the line had apparently held 3,004.

One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood – and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.

Stephen Hawking once told me that there was a sense in which he was glad to be paralyzed, because it allowed him to focus much more intensely on his work.

What I’ve learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor in success is under our control: the number of at bats, the number of chances taken, the number of opportunities seized.

Social rejection doesn’t just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.

A failure doesn’t mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.

People seemed to “decide” how much to eat based on box size as much as taste.

Chemicals were easier to procure than friends, and when I wanted to play with them they never said they had to stay home to wash their hair or, less politely, that they didn’t associate with weirdos.

That’s why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set – the set of people who don’t give up.