Steven Pinker (Steven Arthur Pinker) Quotes

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

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• I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.

  

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• I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

  

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• Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.

  

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• I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.

  

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• I wonder sometimes why the U.S. reviewers are more negative towards turn-based battle systems.

  

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• I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

  

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• Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.

  

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• I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.

  

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• I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.

  

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• Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.

  

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• I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.

  

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• I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.

  

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• This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.

  

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• All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.

  

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• During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.

  

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• I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

  

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• Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

  

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• If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.

  

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• In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.

  

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• Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

  

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• From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.

  

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• I'm interested in making a path instead of following a trail, and that's what I want to do in life - in everything I do.

  

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• One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

  

  Steven Pinker
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