Po Bronson > Quotes

“We've all lost something along the way.”
― Po Bronson, "Why Do I Love These People?": Understanding, Surviving, and Creating Your Own Family

“Failure is hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.”
― Po Bronson

“If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon”
― Po Bronson

“But I'd rather help than watch. I'd rather have a heart than a mind. I'd rather expose too much than too little. I'd rather say hello to strangers than be afraid of them. I would rather know all this about myself than have more money than I need. I'd rather have something to love than a way to impress you.”
― Po Bronson, What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question

“Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my life.”
― Po Bronson

“I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in.”
― Po Bronson, What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question

“Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.”
― Po Bronson, What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question

“I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me.”
― Po Bronson, What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question

“I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that’s kind of a gift to the author. The gift of close, undivided attention. To who else do we listen so closely for eight straight hours? And when readers give that gift to me, I’m grateful for it.”
― Po Bronson

“Failure's hard, but success is far more dangerous. If you're successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever.”
― Po Bronson

“‎It's not easy. It's not supposed to be easy. Most people make mistakes. Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once.”
― Po Bronson, What Should I Do with My Life?: The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question

“A Piece of writing has to seduce the reader, it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust”
― Po Bronson

“educational television had a dramatic effect on relational aggression. The more the kids watched, the crueler they’d be to their classmates. This correlation was 2.5 times higher than the correlation between violent media and physical aggression.”
― Po Bronson, NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children