Alison Gopnik Quotes

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

Alison Gopnik

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LearningResultMoreSpontaneous

Leadership is hard. It's a skill. It's a technique.

Jocko Willink

LeadershipSkillHardTechnique

I had this crazy job, though, when I first got to Los Angeles... I answered this ad in the back of the newspaper to be a telephone psychic, and I did that for two days.

Jenna Fischer

JobCrazyBackLos AngelesNewspaper

Whether there is another life or not, if there is any being who gave me this, I shall thank him from the bottom of my heart, because, upon the whole, my life has been a joy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

LifeHeartJoyMeMy LifeHim

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

Anna Neagle

LifeLearningOpportunityTimeThink

We've always been quite clear about how we want the songs to sound. If we can imagine the song being played at a party, and it gets people tapping their feet, then it's in.

Angus Young

PeopleSongFeetPartyWantSound

I don't want to be a vampire. A lot of other people do and I think it's that dual nature - we have, you know, terrifying/intriguing.

Stephenie Meyer

NaturePeopleThinkYouKnowWant

People don't like it, but inevitably we need to think about both the costs and the benefits of health care. We cannot avoid the financial consequences.

Steven Levitt

HealthPeopleThinkFinancialCare

I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

Steven Wright

LaughFriendsAttentionNeverAlways

Console game publishing has become more like theatrical release film-making and it is very hard if you are not one of the major publishers, and even for them it is hard unless they are working with major game brands.

Trip Hawkins

GameYouBecomeMoreHardRelease

Nobody wants to be seen with a bigot.

Tucker Carlson

NobodySeenWantsBigot

What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.

Robert Fitzgerald

MyselfDoingPerformerDoes

I never expect anything from anybody. I'm a bit Scottish like that - I don't like to be disappointed and let down. I like to take life very slowly.

Rosamunde Pilcher

LifeDownNeverAnythingExpect

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