“People tend to want to live up to their friends’ high regard.” — David Brooks Expectations Copy Share Image
The Republican Party has become an ethnic nationalist party. — David Brooks Nationalist Copy Share Image
Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road. — David Brooks Politics Copy Share Image
Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being. — David Brooks Happiness Copy Share Image
It's always dangerous to overinterpret what Donald Trump says at any one moment. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Harrison had turned social awkwardness into a form of social power.” — David Brooks Awkwardness Copy Share Image
When you're in governance, you understand the limitations and the complexities of governance. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The more people doubt their own beliefs the more, paradoxically, they are inclined to proselytize in favor of them. — David Brooks Belief Copy Share Image
The natural human reaction is to greet hatred with hatred, revenge by revenge. That's the natural genetic reaction. — David Brooks Hatred Copy Share Image
Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
As for multimillionaires [in Donald Trump's Administration], a lot of us hope to be a multimillionaire some day. Again, spotty records, but… — David Brooks Administration Copy Share Image
The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
On the larger issue of the travel ban, our friend Charles Krauthammer of The Washington Post I think put it pretty well.… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Even in this nuclear thing, [ Donald Trump] says we should be stronger and expand. What does that mean? So, what is… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or… — David Brooks Action Copy Share Image
We shouldn't just allow gay marriage. We should insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous that two people could… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm beginning to think [Ted] Cruz had a good convention, that if [Donald] Trump goes down, Cruz is pretty well positioned to… — 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… — David Brooks Awareness Copy Share Image
If Donald Trump is just tweeting about a union guy, then he's just being the bully we have seen. But if he… — David Brooks Bully Copy Share Image
I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“What we have before us then, is three distinct purposes for a university: the commercial purpose (starting a career), Stephen Pinker’s cognitive… — 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 Naturalists Copy Share Image
Russia has a very sophisticated, advanced attack on U.S. businesses and U.S. government and U.S. institutions. And it's not like Donald Trump… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
What you hear in focus groups and conversations, people will give you 20 minutes of rage about how the borders are out… — David Brooks Borders Copy Share Image
The corruption will come back to haunt the Trump administration. But mostly, it'll come back to haunt the American economy, as companies… — David Brooks Administration 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 Education Copy Share Image
“The number of her acquaintances multiplied over the years as the number of her true friendships diminished. The Grant Longitudinal Study found… — David Brooks Friendship Copy Share Image
There was this famous clash of civilization thesis from Samuel Huntington, a political theorist. And the idea was that Western civilization is… — David Brooks Age 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 Failure Copy Share Image
“Ehimlite universities are strong at delivering their commercial mission. They are pretty strong in developing their cognitive mission. But when it comes… — David Brooks Discipleship Copy Share Image
“Why, over the past two decades, have we seen this epidemic of loneliness and meanness, this breakdown in the social fabric? We… — David Brooks Caring Copy Share Image
“But she could make one decision- to change her environment. And if she could change her environment, she would be subject to… — David Brooks Discipline Copy Share Image
“But we don’t merely meet each other as unique individuals or in healthy social circumstances. We meet each other in the current… — David Brooks Community Copy Share Image
The fact that there could be an ISIS West Bank, the fact that the Palestinian government in Gaza doesn't even acknowledge Israel's… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
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