Diane Ackerman Quotes

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

Diane Ackerman

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• Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Cool

• The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Fear
  • Growing
  • Tyranny

• Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.

  

  Maluma
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• ArcGIS is an integrated Web GIS that is supported by services. These are abstracted in a geoinformation model that's managed by the portal, and then accessible by a number of apps, which are the growing part of this system.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Growing
  • Model
  • System

• Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Like

• I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Day

• When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Up
  • Good
  • Remember

• I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Growing
  • Responsibility
  • Moving

• It was just me and my mum growing up, and my mum's always said that's why I'm so mature. We were best friends, and if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't even have started athletics, because she wanted me to have a hobby.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Why
  • She

• What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Learning
  • Empathy
  • Medical

• Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Up
  • Children
  • Growing

• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Growing
  • Matter
  • Grandfather

• Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the '70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I had to nerd out and be a fan of Bob Tullius' Group 44 Jaguars instead of Corvettes/Camaros.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Growing

• Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Important
  • Courage
  • Humility

• When we used to go to the car-wash where people would wipe the windows, my dad would go out and help them and then tip them as well, so I learned my empathy from my dad, and my mum is very empathetic too, but in a very stern way; she will always check my ego.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • People
  • She
  • Help

• Growing up in D.C. there are so many different types of educational and professional levels. They call D.C. 'Chocolate City' but just because we're all chocolate doesn't mean we're all the same. In D.C., everyone co-exists harmoniously but the lines are still drawn. And people don't really step over those lines.

  

  Laz Alonso
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• What drives me is the prospect of turning an obstacle into a business opportunity, and then growing that into something lasting and rewarding.

  

  Ryan Holmes
  • Opportunity
  • Growing
  • Obstacles

• I am prone to despair. We are all born with a particular personality. I get afraid and then I don't want to leave the house.

  

  Marian Keyes
  • House
  • Personality

• I've been writing poetry seriously since about 2008, 2009.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• Shale gas has provided the United States the opportunity to have 100 years of supply that is domestically produced. If we are going to develop natural gas from shale, it has to be done in a safe and responsible manner.

  

  Ken Salazar
  • Done
  • Opportunity

• Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Growing
  • Expression
  • Empathy