“People tend to want to live up to their friends’ high regard.” — David Brooks Expectations Copy Share Image
I want to try to make big films that hopefully connect with people. — David Brooks Bigs Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney knows a lot. He's a very professional - a consummate professional. — David Brooks Knows Copy Share Image
“They say that foreplay for a woman is anything that happens twenty-four hours before intercourse.” — David Brooks Foreplay Copy Share Image
“Joy is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes.” — David Brooks Happiness Copy Share Image
We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions. — David Brooks Choice Copy Share Image
People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time. — David Brooks Inspirational Copy Share Image
What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way. — David Brooks Born Copy Share Image
If you thought Donald Trump was going to be swallowed up by the conventional Republican Party or by Washington, you were wrong. — David Brooks Conventional Copy Share Image
The question is whether Donald Trump recognizes that Vladimir Putin is a bad guy. And I guess there's no indication that he… — David Brooks Bad guy Copy Share Image
The reason the Betsy DeVos case was the centerpiece case for the Democrats wasn't about her weakness as a knowledgeable person on… — David Brooks Cases Copy Share Image
Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see… — David Brooks Beats Copy Share Image
“Life is much bigger than we think, cause and effect intertwined in a vast moral structure that keeps pushing us to do… — David Brooks Bigger Copy Share Image
“It is an emotional and an enchanted place. If the study of the conscious mind highlights the importance of reason and analysis,… — David Brooks Conscious mind Copy Share Image
Betsy DeVos is not the most informed person on education policy, but I have seen her present a few times, and she… — David Brooks Care Copy Share Image
We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so… — David Brooks Language Copy Share Image
When you talk about the problem of illegal immigration, people are angry and polarized. When you talk about the answers, the debate… — David Brooks Angry Copy Share Image
“The students would burn out if forced to spend their entire day amidst the social intensity of the cafeteria and hallway. Fortunately… — David Brooks Education Copy Share Image
It’s easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose. First, it makes everything so simple. The economic crisis… — David Brooks Blame Copy Share Image
“Poorer children grow up with more stress and more disruption, and these disadvantages produce effects on the brain. Researchers often use dull… — David Brooks Children Copy Share Image
I think as we interpret him and frankly as the world learns to interpret Donald Trump, are these just words that are… — David Brooks Air Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want… — David Brooks Ambiguity Copy Share Image
“Your unconscious wants to entangle you in the thick web of relations that are the essence of human flourishing. It longs and… — David Brooks Love Copy Share Image
Of course I don't know what's going on in that meeting on in the mind of Donald Trump. But I do know… — David Brooks Barack Copy Share Image
The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular… — David Brooks Class 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
