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Alison Gopnik has 53 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really…
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Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the…
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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 had three…
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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 and marketing,
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Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from…
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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 in stone,…
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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 love them.
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Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning…
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All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the…
— Ruth Pitter
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Our goal as a team is to keep playing as a group for as long as we can because you will never…
— Don Meyer
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The falcon and the dove sit there together, and the one of them doth prune the other's feather.
— Michael Drayton
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There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune.
— William Shakespeare
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Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it…
— Quintilian
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Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the…
— Alison Gopnik
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If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away…
— Rick Warren
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According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know…
— Morey Amsterdam
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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
— Ogden Nash
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Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time,…
— Seth Godin
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If your life consistently bears no fruit, God will intervene to discipline you. If your life bears some fruit, God will intervene…
— Bruce Wilkinson
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This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The…
— William Shakespeare
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