Nicholas A. Christakis Quotes

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

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• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Influence

• It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Nature

• In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Nature
  • Words

• Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Long
  • Done
  • Accomplishment

• One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Creative

• Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

  

  Adam Clymer
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Book

• My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Culture
  • Stupid
  • Popular

• It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Money
  • Death

• Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Bad
  • Wisdom
  • Too Much

• If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Life
  • Want
  • Compromise

• The striking surprise is that prophets of Israel were tolerated at all by their people. To the patriots, they seemed pernicious; to the pious multitude, blasphemous; to the men in authority, seditious.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Men

• There was no substitute for reality; one should be aware of imitations.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Reality

• Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

  

  Phillip Adams
  • Success

• I would definitely like to have a family, and whether that's with a man or a woman doesn't really matter to me. I've already got my friend who's going to be the donor, so that's taken care of. Just give me a few years and we'll go from there.

  

  Kristanna Loken
  • Family
  • Friend
  • Taken

• I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth.

  

  Joanna Southcott
  • Night
  • Earth

• The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth of it. It transcends ideals of fair and unfair, right and wrong.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Truth

• ... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Culture
  • Language
  • Voice

• Your bullshit culture licking can't stop the death watch ticking.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Entertainment

• There are two different Donald Trump's. There's the one you see on the stage and there is the one who is very cerebral. He sits there and considers things very carefully. You can have a very good conversation with him. And that's the Donald Trump that you'll going to start seeing more and more of.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Conversation
  • Considers
  • Donald Trump's

• Even a good marriage leaves people with longings for certain things their marriage will never be. So, do they accept that, make compromises, and say, "You can't have everything in life," which is what we always did? Or do they say, "I deserve more. I want to experience that thing and, you know, I have fifty more years to live than I used to." It's not necessarily that we have more desires today, but we do feel more entitled to pursue them. We live in this "right to happiness" culture, and yes, we do live half a century longer than we used to.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Today
  • Culture
  • Desire

• It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

  

  Nicholas A. Christakis
  • Culture
  • Conversation
  • Genetics