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Alison Gopnik Quotes

The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.

Alison Gopnik

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 16, 1955

Topics

Children Great Empathy Climb Pen Go

The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.

Jo Nesbo

Me Game Think Stock Market Turn Off

I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.

Johan Cruyff

End Spain Must Players Sign Cross

Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.

Andrew Shue

Life Strength Live Simple People

I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened.

Anatoli Boukreev

People Think Know Out Up Things

I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6.

John Legend

Man Doing Always Front

In the future, when I come home, most of the things that I need to worry about are solved so I can spend time with my family.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

Family Home Future Time Worry I Can

I love to operate in a world that values things outside of beauty. It's just more what I feel comfortable doing.

Troian Bellisario

Love Beauty World Feel Doing Values

I'm just a country boy from north Georgia, and I have three children and a wonderful wife. And when I look at my three children, who are 8, 11, and 12, and they really represent the faces and the future of the children all across my congressional district, and what the Tea Party stands for is not extremism; it's about their future.

Tom Graves

Future Children Wife Tea Look Party

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Words Better Grind Playing Who Like

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.

Michel Gondry

Walk Walls Revenge Frustration Story

It is time for a leader who will lead.

Mitch McConnell

Leader Time Will Lead Who

There's no doubt that the Weight Watchers' long-term collaboration with Oprah Winfrey has certainly accelerated the company's progress since October 2015, with high awareness of her success and happiness with the program sparking interest and excitement.

Mindy Grossman

Success Happiness Progress Doubt