Jonathan Haidt Quotes
Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.
Quotes to Explore
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
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Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
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The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
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I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.
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I adore the fact that when I'm driving home from work, as soon as I hit my neighbourhood, I see people I know.
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Long live free Quebec!
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
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Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.
