Alison Gopnik Quotes

Our babies are like penguins; penguin babies can't exist unless more than one person is taking care of them. They just can't keep going.

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• Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Use
  • Intelligence
  • Guidance

• Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Real
  • Business
  • Present

• We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Want
  • Fool

• Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.

  

  Ian McKeever
  • Die
  • Learn
  • Everyone

• If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Accountability
  • Trash
  • Predictions

• When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Know
  • Talent
  • Paint

• I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Up
  • House
  • Player

• Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Energy
  • Technology
  • Security

• The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.

  

  Garth Hudson
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Winner

• I've been around some really good guys from different teams.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Good
  • Different
  • Really

• I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Friend
  • United States

• I basically go to the gym three times a week to do weight training for one or two hours.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Training
  • Gym
  • Week

• I believe that you should move and eat right.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Believe
  • You
  • I Believe

• Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • Depression

• Our music may sound big emotionally, but that's more to do with the playing, the level of musicianship and the full-on energy. Often, the lyrics are often quite small and focused.

  

  Win Butler
  • Music
  • May
  • Small

• When you interview celebrities, they're so guarded so many times, they can't reveal anything.

  

  Chelsea Handler

• To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
  • Art

• When I was in college, I was in the theater department, which for anyone who has been involved in any kind of theater program, you know that it's really wacky and tight-knit, a real family. Me and my good friends from college would do random shows and plays that were sometimes serious, but most of the time really goofy and funny.

  

  Darren Criss
  • Time
  • Good
  • Real

• Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Thoughts

• Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

  

  Alexei Sayle
  • Work

• The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Free
  • Horse

• The ancients often believed a celestial event like an eclipse to be a bad omen, that the sun or the moon vanishing from the sky was a harbinger of disaster, a sign of devastation or destruction to come.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Bad
  • Sun
  • Moon

• If I am right in saying that thought is the ultimate origin or source, it follows that if we don't do anything about thought, we won't get anywhere. We may momentarily relieve the population problem, the ecological problem, and so on, but they will come back in another way.

  

  David Bohm
  • May

• Our babies are like penguins; penguin babies can't exist unless more than one person is taking care of them. They just can't keep going.

  

  Alison Gopnik