“People tend to want to live up to their friends’ high regard.” — David Brooks Expectations Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump is going to find it very hard to do the kind of massive change he wants. — David Brooks Change Copy Share Image
Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them. — David Brooks Fading Copy Share Image
On the [Andrew] Puzder point, I do agree there has been a double standard. — David Brooks Agree Copy Share Image
“Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.” — David Brooks Close friends Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket. — David Brooks Attention Copy Share Image
I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program. — David Brooks Cinema Copy Share Image
It’s only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward? — David Brooks Asks Copy Share Image
I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success. — David Brooks Barack Copy Share Image
I think there are two basic approaches you can use for campaign finance. One is complete openness, everybody knows absolutely everything, but… — David Brooks Approach Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a… — David Brooks Administration Copy Share Image
One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the… — David Brooks Capitalism Copy Share Image
“This way, suffering becomes a fearful gift, very different from that other gift, happiness, conventionally defined. The latter brings pleasure, but the… — David Brooks Character Copy Share Image
“The first thing you see, covering yards and yards of one wall, is an object that looks like a nickel-plated nuclear reactor,… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than… — David Brooks Covered Copy Share Image
I do think economic and social anxiety is the number one issue. And I'm pretty confident Hillary Clinton will be really riding… — David Brooks Anxiety Copy Share Image
The gun becomes this psychological totem, this thing of who I am. And it's almost as if using the gun is going… — David Brooks Differences Copy Share Image
“Western thought has emphasized individual action, permanent character traits, formal logic, and clearly delineated categories. For an even longer period, Asian thought… — David Brooks Asian Copy Share Image
With a normal president like President [Barack] Obama, he says a word, and that's because there has been some thought that he's… — David Brooks Adviser Copy Share Image
If I were Donald Trump, I would definitely not pick Mitt Romney because it's very easy for Mitt Romney to have have… — David Brooks America Copy Share Image
This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so… — David Brooks Causes Copy Share Image
“Modern society has created a giant apparatus for the cultivation of the hard skills, while failing to develop the moral and emotional… — David Brooks Children Copy Share Image
Big Brother is not the only danger facing the country. Another is the rising tide of distrust, the corrosive spread of cynicism,… — David Brooks Big brother Copy Share Image
Russian hackers interfered in our elections, and we like penalized a few of them. Whatever they're doing underground, we don't know. No,… — David Brooks Barack Copy Share Image
If you do have to look at polls, you should do it no more than once every few days, to get a… — David Brooks Anxiety Copy Share Image
“In 1997 Gary McPherson studied 157 randomly selected children as they picked out and learned a musical instrument. Some went on to… — David Brooks Children Copy Share Image
“Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of being intervals of freedom, they are breeding grounds… — David Brooks Ambition Copy Share Image
“Across the centuries the moral systems from medival chivalry to Bruce Springsteen love anthems have worked the same basic way. They take… — david brooks Character Copy Share Image
“she enjoyed her continued glimpses into the inner workings of world affairs. She often would sit back in the middle of some… — David Brooks Intelligence Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other… — David Brooks Accomplishments Copy Share Image
“I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The information that comes from… — David Brooks Biology Copy Share Image
“I’ve come to believe that wise people don’t tell us what to do; they start by witnessing our story. They take the… — David Brooks Confidants Copy Share Image
Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash… — David Brooks Art Copy Share Image
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