Jonah Lehrer Quotes

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.

Jonah Lehrer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 25, 1981

Topics

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One thing is obvious: Our policy, which is directed at making the country ungovernable, has started to bear fruit. The process that has been initiated is irreversible.

Joe Slovo

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I'm famous. That's my job.

Jerry Rubin

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I would rather be an independent senator, governed by my own views, going for the good of the country, uncontrolled by any thing which mortal man can bring to bear upon me, than to be president of the United States, put there as presidents of the United States have been for many years past.

John C. Calhoun

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There's no federal government agency that ought to be immune from having to explain the potential financial impact of an action they've taken or intend to take. We deserve the specifics.

Ander Crenshaw

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Most of all I don't want to be bored. That's why I'd rather do something that has some sort of ambition, that risks failing, rather than make safer, more comfortable choices.

Steve Coogan

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I auditioned for 'West Side Story' and got the part of Tony, but wasn't allowed to do it. They needed me to play trumpet. But I was glad, in the end, because I learned a lot about playing that score.

Stephen Costello

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We should seek the greatest value of our action.

Stephen Hawking

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Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

Steven Pressfield

TechnologySelf-DisciplineSkills

We can do more good by being good, than in any other way.

Rowland Hill

GoodWayMoreBeingThanOther

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

Michael Novak

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In order to make money the first thing is to have no need of it.

Ludovic Halevy

MoneyFirstNeedOrderMakeThing

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Josh Billings

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