Jonathan Haidt Quotes

The big breakthrough for me was, once I stopped disliking conservatives and could actually see what they were right about, they showed me a lot of things that liberals were wrong about. But at the same time, I think there are some things that liberals are right about that conservatives have trouble seeing.

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• I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Action

• I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Night
  • City
  • Lights

• I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Know
  • Choices
  • Healthy

• I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Fiction
  • Fan
  • Historical

• I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Women
  • Love

• I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Everyone

• I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Fall
  • Made
  • Jump

• If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.

  

  Bart Gordon
  • Country
  • Serious
  • Generation

• I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Think
  • Tree
  • Possible

• Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Real
  • Me
  • Deep

• After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Time
  • Pretty

• All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Mind
  • Desire
  • Problem

• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Lost

• I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Theater
  • Director
  • Go

• When Captain America is in a room full of Marvel superheroes, he is always Top Dog, even though his powers are pretty modest. He could be stood next to Thor, Iron Man, whoever. He is the one that everyone looks up to. To me, that is Superman, too. Even de-powered in the Legion arc, he was still Superman. Still Top Dog.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Up
  • America
  • Pretty

• People work hard.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Want
  • Nice
  • Moving

• You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Character
  • Empathy
  • Sympathy

• People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • People
  • Truth
  • Looks

• I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
  • People
  • Alone
  • Empathy

• I think it's a blessing that the show [Dracula] is on a network because it forces everyone to use their imaginations and be creative. The power of suggestion comes back. So, in the sex scenes, no one is ever fully naked, but I feel the suggestion is so much sexier.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Creative
  • Show
  • Network

• Don't ever in your life do a World Cup and the Olympic Games at the same time. This will make your life almost impossible.

  

  Eduardo Paes
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• In Manhattan, marriage is a trend. Couples kiss over their arugula and radicchio salads. They fondle each other's genitals while devouring their pasta puttanesca. By the time the tiramisu arrives, they've slid under the table.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Marriage

• The big breakthrough for me was, once I stopped disliking conservatives and could actually see what they were right about, they showed me a lot of things that liberals were wrong about. But at the same time, I think there are some things that liberals are right about that conservatives have trouble seeing.

  

  Jonathan Haidt
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