Steven Pinker Quotes

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

Steven Pinker

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If I'm working on a poem, it's at the forefront of my mind; I'm working on it when I'm cooking dinner or stretched out on the sofa. But if I don't really have it by the 10th draft, I know it just isn't going to jell.

Maxine Kumin

CookingMindDinnerKnowOutSofa

Don't try to be anyone else. Don't try to emulate what someone is doing. Play to your strengths.

Anjelah Johnson

SomeoneDoingPlayTryStrengths

Bob Dole. He's like the neighbors' Labrador retriever your dad used to curse for all that barking, all that darn digging in your mom's tulip bed, and now look, you live next door to a godforsaken pack of teeth-baring rabid Pomeranians, and, good golly, Bob Dole!

Jeanne Marie Laskas

GoodLiveMomDoorYouLook

I would not want to leave the impression that I would give some precedents more weight than others because of some sort of academic disagreement.

Amy Coney Barrett

WantOthersMoreDisagreementLeave

One of the big takeaways from Iraq was that you have to not lose confidence in what you are doing. We were able to go to the edge of the abyss without losing hope.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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For any reporter, education is a topic where everything else - money, politics, et cetera - intersects. I have four kids in K through 12, so I'm knee-deep in it. I'm really interested in the philosophy behind it all. Should you just memorize your multiplication tables, or should you understand the concept behind them?

Soledad O'Brien

EducationMoneyPoliticsYouThrough

I hate tricky facial hair. If your facial hair is too spotty in places, shave. Just forget about it.

Tom Ford

HateHairForgetPlacesJustYour

It's not about today or tomorrow; it's about building a company that can build the best race cars in the world.

Robby Gordon

TodayBestTomorrowWorldBuilding

When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.

Ron Suskind

FearTruthPeopleSayingYouOthers

I do think that people deserve a basic economic floor so the bottom doesn't fall out under them.

Michael Tubbs

PeopleThinkFallDeserveOutFloor

Now everybody's sampling.

Missy Elliott

NowSamplingEverybody

I don't know if i have a 'take' on L.A. The music community is enormous, from the studio musicians to the bands trying to 'make it' to the indie bands... so many bands... it can be overwhelming. But it seems healthy.

Lou Barlow

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