Dacher Keltner Quotes
Human beings are wired to care and give and it's probably our best route to happiness.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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I buy when other people are selling.
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I get these weird divine feelings. They're, like, so strong I can't shake them.
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If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
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What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.
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Well I'm running down the roadTryin' to loosen my load,I've got seven women on my mind,Four that wanna own me,Two that wanna stone me,One says she's a friend of mine.
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Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.
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Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.
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Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
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Human beings are wired to care and give and it's probably our best route to happiness.
