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Steven Pinker Quotes

The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Think You Privilege More

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

Wish More Sales Little Just Arms

Prayer is where the action is.

Prayer Action Where

Bureaucrats behave very differently than a private-sector manager because their motivations are different. Permanent bureaucrats, no matter how senior, worry about their next job.

Job Worry Manager Matter Permanent

At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country.

Time Moment People Looking Back Back

When we assume that 'normal' people need 'time to heal,' or discourage individuals from making any decisions until a year or more after a loss, as some grief counselors do, we may be giving inappropriate advice. Such advice can cause people who feel ready to move on to wonder if they are hardhearted.

Stephanie Coontz

Time Grief People Advice Loss Year

I'll always have a chip on my shoulder until I hang my shoes up. No matter how long I play this game, the chip on my shoulder will always be there. That won't change.

Change Shoes Game Long Play Matter

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

School Poor Average Up Upbringing

'Expect nothing and hope for the best' is my mantra. A drama teacher called Joseph Blatchley told me that, and it's the best advice I've had. If you keep an open mind and don't expect too much, then you won't be disappointed.

Michelle Dockery

Hope Teacher Best Mind Me Advice

For a few years, skeins of yarn piled up in baskets around the house. There weren't enough humans in my mother's orbit to wear all the scarves and sweaters and hats she knitted. And then, as suddenly as she started, she lost interest, leaving needles still entwined in half-finished fragments.

Christina Baker Kline

Mother Enough Hats House Lost She

I took computers in high school. I would do all my own programming, but I didn't see the future of computers for anything other than data processing. Who was going to use a computer for communications?

Future School Computers High School

I am a feminist.

I Am Feminist Am

I drove an orange Camaro and dated a cheerleader. Life was good.

Life Good Orange Cheerleader Drove

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