Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Quotes
Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.
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Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
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I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.
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We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.
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To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
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There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.
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I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
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Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
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What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.
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Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.
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If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.
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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
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Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know.
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Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.
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I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you'll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the 'Lost' world.
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My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what we listened to.
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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
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Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.
