I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.


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There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Jus...
JEFFREY KOTTLER
Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are at risk every day of their lives.
JEFFREY MONTGOMERY
Good design can't fix broken business models.
JEFFREY VEEN
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.
FRANCIS JEFFREY
I can't say enough about the guts and the talents of Amazon. They're so agile, they're s...
JEFFREY TAMBOR
Science has yet to isolate the Godiva Chocolate or Prada gene, but that doesn't mean your weakne...
JEFFREY KLUGER
I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambie...
JEFFREY TATE
Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as A...
JEFFREY KLUGER
We use social media as an adjunct to my total media/market outreach.
JEFFREY GITOMER
As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a l...
JEFFREY KLUGER
In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acou...
JEFFREY TATE
It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daugh...
JEFFREY KLUGER
The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than wh...
JEFFREY KLUGER
The job of the Attorney General is very specific. My roll, as the legal adviser, is to defend the co...
JEFFREY CHIESA
A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it conscio...
JEFFREY KLUGER
My readers and my audiences have turned into my followers. They are more than interested in what I h...
JEFFREY GITOMER
Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all i...
JEFFREY GITOMER
What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagi...
JEFFREY KATZENBERG
It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to l...
JEFFREY KLUGER
I don't mind that I am not necessarily a household name, because I think my characters have outs...
JEFFREY WRIGHT
In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there i...
JEFFREY SACHS
The key in mastering any kind of sales is switching statements about you and how great you are and w...
JEFFREY GITOMER
In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.
JEFFREY GITOMER
There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and stri...
JEFFREY GITOMER
There's no lotion or potion that will make sales faster and easier for you - unless your potion ...
JEFFREY GITOMER
Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich wou...
JEFFREY KLUGER
I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps yo...
JEFFREY WRIGHT
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is part of our constitutional rights and it belongs to e...
JEFFREY TAMBOR
Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.
JEFFREY KLUGER
The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ...
FRANCIS JEFFREY
It was tragic how life had sucked her down to the bones, all her spontaneity her laughter and freedo...
BELINDA JEFFREY
As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, me...
JEFFREY KLUGER
Once I thought I found love, but then I realized I was just out
of cigarettes.
JEFFREY MCDANIEL
We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are p...
JEFFREY DEITCH
Wisdom comes when you realize the pain, people, or problems life used to produce you now push you.
JEFFREY FRY
My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Re...
JEFFREY SKOLL
Overspending is as certain a part of the holiday season as overeating. But pushing away from both th...
JEFFREY KLUGER
I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I sti...
JEFFREY ARCHER
The head coach is the chemist.
JEFFREY LURIE
The chief executive officer is also the chief sales officer. He or she is responsible for the succes...
JEFFREY GITOMER
Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to ...
JEFFREY FRY
Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served u...
JEFFREY KLUGER
Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use...
JEFFREY KLUGER
Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited tr...
JEFFREY KLUGER
There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an...
JEFFREY KLUGER
Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort o...
JEFFREY KLUGER
All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neuroch...
JEFFREY KLUGER
It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what ...
JEFFREY KLUGER
Kids whose puberty begins too soon face not just psychological risks, but physical ones too, with an...
JEFFREY KLUGER
Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This migh...
JEFFREY TATE
Stories are great, but at the end of the day, you remember that moment and that moment and that mome...
JEFFREY BELL
Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is t...
JEFFREY TOOBIN
In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up ...
JEFFREY SACHS
I've been in three sort of... I mean, I'd say they're groundbreaking series, if only bec...
JEFFREY TAMBOR
Odds are you know some narcissists. Odds are they're smart, confident and articulate. They make ...
JEFFREY KLUGER
I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line wor...
JEFFREY BROWN
Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be ...
JEFFREY KLUGER
Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town s...
JEFFREY ZELDMAN
I actually got thrown into my Bar Mitzvah because my teacher, my Cantor, did not tell me that they w...
JEFFREY TAMBOR
I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where t...
JEFFREY KLUGER