"What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you……" — Alison Gopnik
"What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice."
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53 Quotes by Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik has 53 quotes on this site.
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The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you…
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Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush,…
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What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've…
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Owning our past allows us to own our future.
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The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.
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It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.
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Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production…
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Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they…
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The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written…
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Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
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I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and…
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Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually,…
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More Automatic Quotes
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Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint…
— William S. Burroughs
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Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give…
— Maxwell Maltz
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Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few…
— Gijs de Vries
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully…
— William James
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We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to…
— Ralph Miller
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The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.
— Wayne Dyer
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The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the…
— Norbert Wiener
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger…
— Ralph Washington Sockman
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat…
— Rollo May
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Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a…
— John B. S. Haldane
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I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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