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Steven Pinker Quotes

I learned to focus my energy on high-quality, long-term projects rather than lower-quality projects with quicker payoffs.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Focus Energy Long-Term Rather Than

It's a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don't sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

Day You Every Day Letters Two Stay

That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization. Indeed, in a democracy, it is usually the only way great deeds are done.

Great Justice Purpose Democracy Done

We concluded that you cannot rely on delta hedging alone. It sounds simplistic to say that now, but back then, this was the sort of thing people were only just beginning to realize.

Alone Beginning People You Back Say

As a child that is born into the world requires nourishment, so also the Christ that is born within is a babe and requires to be nourished to the full stature of manhood.

Child World Born Within Manhood

I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.

Angela Duckworth

Hope Children Focus Think Questions

Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I think we keep coming up with this stubborn problem of a woman being judged by her appearance rather than her accomplishments. We are much more inclined to ask: was Cleopatra beautiful?

Beautiful Woman I Am Writing Think

The weirder the better for me.

Me Better Weirder

When you don't behave the way liberals think you should, their effort and their intention to control you compounds.

Effort Control Think You Intention

I do want to learn the way to do it over here. I'm not really looking to just go about my way and do it in the Japanese way that I've been doing. Basically, I'll try to get some advice, learn the way it's done here and go about it.

Masahiro Tanaka

Looking Advice Learn Doing Go Done

It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

Jonathan Lethem

Me Paths Find Feelings Only Access

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

History Born Without Where Accident

I put pressure on myself.

Myself Pressure Put

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