Steven Pinker Quotes

The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.

Steven Pinker

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BrainOrganizationLookingThinkYou

People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.

Jimmy Wales

PeopleVoiceBagFindWhoMixed

In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.

Jim Balsillie

AmericaNoiseBuyingCustomersStill

The question that I can't shake - it's this question that keeps coming up for me - is What does the shared home of the future look like? People are sharing homes at a rate that no one ever predicted, but residences and homes weren't designed for it. They were designed around ideas of privacy and separation.

Joe Gebbia

HomeFuturePeopleMeIdeasLook

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Maxim Gorky

GoodManGood ManStupidBadBrains

After the reunification, there was a certain sense of foreignness because daily life in the former East German states was completely turned inside out - everything from the shops to the bureaucracy to the working world.

Angela Merkel

LifeDailyDaily LifeWorldInside

When you get chickenpox as an adult, it's not a laughing matter.

Robert Whittaker

YouMatterAdultGetLaughing

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

Ross Perot

SuccessPeopleWinningGameAchieve

When I sing, I want people to think only about the tenor and only about the music.

Jose Carreras

MusicPeopleThinkWantSingOnly

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they've got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that's malnutrition, too.

Dick Gregory

MeAmericanYouPersonBaldAirport

I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical.

Christian Bale

GoodMeSayDamnMeanFirst

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Arnold H. Glasow

LifeFootballYouGoKnowWhere

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way.

William P. Leahy

FaithPeopleThinkLookWayAbuse

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