Alison Gopnik Quotes

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Young
  • Danger

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

  

  Wale
  • America
  • Man
  • Black

• Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Help
  • Gift

• The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural and helpful.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Practice
  • Yoga
  • Meditation

• If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Day
  • Balance

• Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Feel
  • Wrong

• While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.

  

  Sam Wood
  • Support
  • Road
  • Building

• Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Art
  • Political
  • Education

• I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that, and I am open enough to say it.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Blame
  • Vulnerability
  • Instinctive

• Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Best
  • Motivational
  • Plant

• Each new generation needs to commit again to the foundations of our peaceful coexistence.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • New
  • Generation
  • Peaceful

• I'll post a video, and it might get 10,000 comments, and I'll scroll through and they'll all be lovely and nice - but then they'll be one saying, 'I hate you; I'm unsubscribing' and that's the one that sticks out and stays on your mind all day.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Nice

• In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Energy
  • Permanent
  • Accurate

• I really believe in the idea of the future.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Idea

• All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is the best example.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Best
  • Blessings

• I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.

  

  Linda Evans
  • Life

• As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • World
  • Earth
  • Food

• I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for that.

  

  Howie Mandel
  • Food
  • Thanksgiving Day

• Well, this is a surprise. If you aren't here to give me trouble, then why are you here?

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Trouble
  • Give
  • Surprise

• Ich denke an dichte Fenster! Kein anderes Land kann so dichte und so schöne Fenster bauen.

  

  Angela Merkel

• Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Children
  • Food
  • Water