“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 Copy Share Image
I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“They turn nature into an achievement course, a series of ordeals and obstacles they can conquer. They go into nature to behave… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“people who succeed tend to find one goal in the distant future and then chase it through thick and thin. People who… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The madman theory is that you can be a successful deterrer if you - if they think you could be crazy. And… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Putin is someone who has been undermining the norms of what we consider the world order since he got into power and… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“There is something heroic about a person in struggle with herself, strained on the rack of conscience, suffering torments, yet staying alive… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Flourishing depends on unconscious skills that serve as a pre-requisite for conscious accomplishments.” — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Most poverty and suffering - whether in a country, a family or a person - flows from disorganization. A stable social order… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you go - you achieve a few things in life. I have achieved more career success than I ever experienced or… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Adults should want two things, he said, and these were the two things he wanted from his own life: First, he wanted… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I've argued that Trump's biggest success in his first 100 days was to keep the Russia story at bay, toss out whatever… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If you're running a successful administration, then you're loyal to people who are basically good who make a mistake. And that seems… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
When you're running for president, you're a guest in the living room for four years. And if people don't think you're going to be… — David Brooks 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 people, experiences,… — David Brooks 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 good for… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I think Barack Obama's foreign policy will be regarded more failure than success. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Trade has suddenly become massively unpopular. I think that's massively unjust. I think free trade has been wonderful for America on balance. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
It’s worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life on Wall… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I do think Donald Trump is a fundamentally unstabilizing force and that the people who swore to uphold the Constitution are going to have… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
