David Brooks Quotes

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• The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that career success is…
• The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your…
• I've observed a few things about the few really great people I've had a chance to meet and cover...They need to be around people. You…
• Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.
• Your DVD collection is organized, and so is your walk-in closet. Your car is clean and vacuumed, your frequently dialed numbers are programmed into your…
• The roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself. They are always in the wider historical context. They require new ways of…
• This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage…
• Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting…
• Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want to hear. This…
• This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making , a romantic interlude in the midst of normal…
• If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch, 1,5 profound insights…
• Research by Donald A. Redelmeier and Sheldon M. Singh has found that, on average, Oscar winners live nearly four years longer than nominees that don't…
• Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.
• Big Brother is not the only danger facing the country. Another is the rising tide of distrust, the corrosive spread of cynicism, the fraying of…
• Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.
• If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK.
• The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.
• I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of…
• Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the…
• The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past…

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