“If the outer mind hungers for status, money, and applause, the inner mind hungers for harmony and connection—those moments when self-consciousness fades… — David Brooks Love Copy Share Image
Putin has been - and with a lot of the groups, the conservative groups, the more extreme conservative groups that underlie Trump,… — David Brooks Bits Copy Share Image
Research by Donald A. Redelmeier and Sheldon M. Singh has found that, on average, Oscar winners live nearly four years longer than… — David Brooks Average Copy Share Image
Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent… — David Brooks Charter Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's ego is like a comet the size of Jupiter just traveling through the solar system, and we all have to… — David Brooks Affected Copy Share Image
Decision-making power, whether it's on foreign affairs or domestic affairs, is concentrated in the White House in a reasonably small circle. — David Brooks Affair Copy Share Image
Who could have predicted this, that the presidency is kind of a hard job? Nobody knew that. I also like the fact… — David Brooks Hard job 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 Growing stronger Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is sort of an Orwellian figure, an authoritarian figure who is twisting words in an Orwellian manner, "1984," to exercise… — David Brooks Ego Copy Share Image
I'm not sure [Donald] Trump has had that distinction between private and public life in his head. And so, I think there's… — David Brooks Behavior Copy Share Image
Stairway to Wisdom”) David Brooks detailed the needed ingredients to gaining a deep understanding of a social problem, beginning with the data… — David Brooks Accounts Copy Share Image
You have a country that is 20 percent liberal, 40 percent conservative. You have a country where maybe 22 percent have faith… — David Brooks Conservative Copy Share Image
“Everybody is comparing the oil spill to Hurricane Katrina, but the real parallel could be the Iranian hostage crisis. In the late… — David Brooks Climate Copy Share Image
What's sort of remarkable is that, especially in the Israel and the Russia cases, you have got a U.S. citizen, Donald Trump,… — David Brooks Country Copy Share Image
Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are… — David Brooks Busy Copy Share Image
I, personally, think Trump improved pretty dramatically and certainly changed pretty dramatically over the last hundred days. He's less of the populist.… — David Brooks Changed Copy Share Image
I certainly hear a lot of people say that Donald Trump not only incited some bad things. He also exposed some things.… — David Brooks America Copy Share Image
We live in a culture of a big me. We're encouraged - we raise our kids to think how great they are,… — David Brooks Bigs Copy Share Image
“Apparently, we have become such a hyper-individualized culture that it is impossible to develop an argument based on how individual cases fit… — David Brooks Body-politic Copy Share Image
I generally think debates within a party should not be treated as a scandal. They should be treated as a sign of… — David Brooks Being honest Copy Share Image
I have seen [Betsy DeVos] present a few times. I don't really know her. But I have seen her present on education… — David Brooks Education Copy Share Image
If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch,… — David Brooks Afternoon Copy Share Image
A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets. It may be the only kind of victory we're achieving this season, but… — David Brooks Achieve Copy Share Image
Certainly, the country can't have two presidents at once, so the tradition has been to hang back if you're the president-elect and… — David Brooks Country Copy Share Image
A lot of people think Barack Obama should have responded to the Russian hacking of the U.S. elections weeks ago, months ago.… — David Brooks Barack Copy Share Image
Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have… — David Brooks American culture Copy Share Image
For us going forward, it's to not reverse the dynamism of American society and the diversity. It's to pay attention to the… — David Brooks American society Copy Share Image
The North Korean regime is extremely fiery, extremely insecure, sometimes hysterical. And when you're around somebody who's screaming and unstable, the last… — David Brooks Hysterical Copy Share Image
I think that it's an arguable position, whether with Hamas and ISIS around, whether there should be a Palestinian state, but it's… — David Brooks Circumstances Copy Share Image
Just, as I have traveled around from school to school, whether it's project-based learning or an outward bound curriculum, it's very hard… — David Brooks Bounds Copy Share Image
Of those two [Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump], I do think that the - right now, at least in my mind, the… — David Brooks Clinton Copy Share Image
For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a… — David Brooks Arms 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 Asks 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… — David Brooks Differences Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is sitting on the control deck of the starship Enterprise, and he can push a lot of pretty buttons, but… — David Brooks Business Copy Share Image
Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed… — David Brooks Calling Copy Share Image
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of… — David Brooks Atheism Copy Share Image
Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character… — David Brooks Building Copy Share Image
If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things… — David Brooks Buying Copy Share Image
Obamacare is woven into the fabric of health care. It's very hard to just rip it out, as Donald Trump sort of… — David Brooks Care Copy Share Image
![“I'm not sure [Donald] Trump has had that distinction between private and public life in his head. And so, I think there's likely to be an erosion of just that standard, that different standard, consciousness, and I think it's likely we'll see what we haven't seen in the last eight years and even…” quote by David Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/44f/david-brooks-644_behavior_i-m-not-sure-donald-trump-has-had-that-d_696868.jpg)
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