Alison Gopnik Quotes

Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and ideas of other scientists. The recent studies show that children also learn in these ways.

Alison Gopnik

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ChildrenIdeasWorldLearnData

I don't want to admit it, but I do enjoy the feedback from the audience. It's instant feedback. It's like, you could do a movie, shoot it for a year, wait six months, it comes out and you gotta do three weeks of marketing. Three weeks of that, and everyone goes, 'It sucks.'

Jimmy Fallon

WaitFeedbackEnjoyYearYouThree

Irrationality interests me more than anything: sometimes it's very dangerous, but it can be incredibly beautiful.

John Burnside

BeautifulMeDangerousSometimes

And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

Michael Bloomberg

Believe In YourselfYourselfNew York

Every Brit I met had the best sense of humor. They're hilarious: very dry and witty.

Merritt Patterson

HumorBestSense Of HumorWittyDry

Notwithstanding the likes of 'All the President's Men' in the 1970s or HBO's recent 'The Newsroom,' film and TV have always loved to hate the press.

Steve Erickson

HateMenLovedPresidentAlwaysTV

I do lament how many investors focus on all the short-term sugar buzz of some marginal improvement in something - nothing history books are ever going to be written about. In many cases, these are quick and easy ways to make money.

Steve Jurvetson

HistoryImprovementMoneyFocusEasy

I'm a very conservative businessman. I don't work on credit. My father was the guy who taught me how to think straight, not to delude myself and think I was larger than I was.

Stephen J. Cannell

WorkFatherMyselfMeThinkCredit

I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.

Sidney Poitier

RacismPeopleBlackMiamiPlaceRun

When you're starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life.

Rivers Cuomo

LifeWorkMeRock StarYouArtist

Most interviewers basically just want us to rephrase the bio. You already know us - why do you need to interview us?

Mike D

YouKnowWantWhyNeedInterview

I spend a lot of time wondering how to best support the people that I love, because I think sometimes that means getting out of the way. When should I leave them alone to have their own life?

Jason Isbell

LifeLoveAloneTimeBestSupport

I don't eat as much as an athlete should. I just don't like it.

Johnny Weir

AthleteEatJustLikeMuchShould

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