Jonathan Haidt Quotes

Even if you have a brain predisposed to liberalism, you might end up with some conservative friends or find inspiring conservative role models who could be very influential on you, and that could send you down a different track in life.

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• The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Life
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  • Time

• The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Back
  • United States
  • Meet

• When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
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  • Mom

• Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Yourself
  • Search
  • Others

• There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Funny
  • Awards
  • Host

• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • God
  • Respect

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Bad
  • Trust
  • Animal

• It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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• I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Country
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• Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
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• Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

  Garry Kasparov
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• I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

  

  Carlos Slim
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• If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

  

  Parker Stevenson
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• I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.

  

  Yuri Milner
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• In China, the rules of the market are not always that transparent. So it's very hard. Also, the national TV networks are all owned by the government, so our shows are subject to censorship by the networks. Every now and then, we are told that certain subjects cannot be talked about. There are frustrations.

  

  Yang Lan
  • Government
  • Now
  • Censorship

• You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Up
  • You
  • Down

• I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • Thinking
  • America
  • Spiritual

• I spend a lot of time in Paris, in Milan, and in New York, and Rome is a little bit different. There is something in Rome, incredible, like in a Fellini movie. Everybody's screaming and laughing very loud. It's something that can give me more energy in terms of freedom.

  

  Alessandro Michele
  • Time
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• But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

  

  James Levine
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  • Fall

• The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Great
  • Men
  • Great Men

• Even if you have a brain predisposed to liberalism, you might end up with some conservative friends or find inspiring conservative role models who could be very influential on you, and that could send you down a different track in life.

  

  Jonathan Haidt
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