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- The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought…
- There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.
- If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an…
- If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more…
- A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.
- What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily.
- You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a…
- That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting…
- Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking.
- When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.
- Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he…
- The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best…
- Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely related…
- [Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot,…
- Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry?…
- To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.
- Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his or her medicine cabinet- understands this implicitly; you…
- What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of…
- Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will be done by…
- The poorer children were, to her mind, often better behaved, less whiny, more creative in making use of their own time, and have a well-developed…
- The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
- I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
- In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were…
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle