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Steven Pinker Quotes

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: September 18, 1954

Topics

Friendship Business Think You Rules

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Feel Alive Dead Half I Feel Mostly

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

Jerry Weintraub

Good Creative Entrepreneur Go Want

You can burn a lot of calories mopping the house.

You House Burn Calories Lot

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

Things Agree Most Tories

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

John Lee Hooker

You Back Blues Stop Go Europe

There's a bit of the kid in me.

I never check my bank account. I know that sounds crazy. But I don't know how much is in there. I never know how much is in there. I have an idea - I have a bottom line - but I never look because I always make believe there's never anything in there.

Crazy Believe Look Know Never Line

I've been denied coverage two times in my life - and it's after I've been in a big successful rock band. And I've a lot of met people who've been denied coverage who don't have the resources to fight the insurance companies. And they shouldn't have to do that.

Life Fight People My Life Insurance

My very first sport was soccer. I used to play in goal, but after I was hit the face with the ball a couple of times, I was done with soccer.

Michelle Carter

Face Soccer Goal Play Done First

I want to be around people, not crickets.

Jonathan Knight

People Want Around

As a child growing up in Ireland, you would have to go to Dublin if you wanted to go to the luxury brands. And I remember my mother being too uncomfortable to go into some of those stores. I want to get rid of the barrier.

Jonathan Anderson

Mother Child Growing Up Luxury You

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

Leadership Leader Children Football

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