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.

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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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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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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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I am more of an old black and white movies fan.
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In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should also encourage the ability to think creatively that comes from a meaningful arts education.
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I don't think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn't becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it's very new to us. Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people 'over the Internet.'
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After all we have each of us only eight notes to work upon.
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Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.
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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.