"Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking……" — Iain Banks
"Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot"
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85 Quotes by Iain Banks
Iain Banks has 85 quotes on this site.
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I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog,…
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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year…
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with…
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there…
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as…
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write.…
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Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you…
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You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end…
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Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.
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I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is…
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Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.
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As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines…
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So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made…
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The goal of a designer is to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize and glean insights that enable him or…
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I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling…
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It's hard not to empathize with the mayor's anger, given the injustices he'd suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to…
— Edward Glaeser
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Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the…
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Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one's group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom…
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Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide
— Jonathan Haidt
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What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with…
— Barack Obama
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We need empathy to give empathy. When we sense ourselves being defensive or unable to empathize, we need to (a)…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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The more we empathize with the other party, the safer we feel.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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It may be most difficult to empathize with those we are closest to.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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