Nicholas A. Christakis Quotes
My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.
Quotes to Explore
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.
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Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
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I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.
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The excitement of the fans in Montreal, especially in the playoffs, I don't think you can get that anywhere else. For a hockey player, I kind of wish everyone could go through that and experience what it is to play there. It's very unique.
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Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
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Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
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The writing that feels the best to me, I experience sometimes, is a kind of weirdly deep listening - like, it feels like if you just listen hard enough, the next sentence will tell you what it needs to be.
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In every case where I've seen a transformational school, there's a principal who really has the foundational experience of having taught successfully.
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Moving to Los Angeles and working in places like Hawaii, you get to experience a true melting pot. It's really nice to be around people who are multiethnic.
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It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment.
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A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.
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Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.
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One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved to the United States the year after I was born. They moved into an all-white neighborhood, where the previous black family had a cross burned on their lawn.
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In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
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The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
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Rochester: Oh oh.
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I want to know why the government of this country can't take care of the people who are keeping us safe?
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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
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I was raised with a ton of brothers and sisters where, obviously, the music running in and out of the house was very eclectic. So, I had a lot under my belt by the time I grew up. It all depends upon the mood that I'm in, the space that I'm in and what I'm feeling at that moment. But definitely!
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My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.
