Ben Miller

Clear’s Law of Recurrence: The number of people who believe an idea is directly proportional to the number of times it has been repeated during the last year—even if the idea is false.

The more you repeat a bad idea, the more likely people are to believe it.

Arguments are like a full frontal attack on a person’s identity. Reading a book is like slipping the seed of an idea into a person’s brain and letting it grow on their own terms.

Facts don’t change our minds. Friendship does.

The people who are most likely to change our minds are the ones we agree with on 98 percent of topics.

When it comes to changing people’s minds, it is very difficult to jump from one side to another. You can’t jump down the spectrum. You have to slide down it.

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

No is a decision. Yes is a responsibility.

When you say no, you are only saying no to one option. When you say yes, you are saying no to every other option.