"With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people……" — Jared Diamond
"With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of achievers. I compared what Id actually achieved in my life with what I would like to achieve and what other people have achieved, and I found that comparison depressing."
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88 Quotes by Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond has 88 quotes on this site.
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Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural…
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Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being…
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In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
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In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex…
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The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago…
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Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of…
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The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions…
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One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long…
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When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you…
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The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
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It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end…
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Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared…
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More Achieve Quotes
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they…
— Neil Armstrong
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Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as…
— Mary Kay Ash
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I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving…
— Arthur Ashe
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Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can…
— Julian Assange
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If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You…
— J. G. Ballard
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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will…
— Dave Barry
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Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it.…
— Bernard Baruch
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To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard…
— Victoria Beckham
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You really have to work hard and apply yourself and by applying yourself and working hard and being diligent, you…
— Julie Benz
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Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate…
— Ben Bernanke
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