Alison Gopnik Quotes

Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?'

Alison Gopnik

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WorkLearningChildrenPeopleDeep

Steve Jobs now rests with the sublime satisfaction of symbolic immortality.

Steve Jurvetson

SatisfactionNowImmortalitySublime

Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.

Sloane Crosley

CityYouCountryAdmitNothingReal

New technologies, innovative management, higher productivity, displacements in the labour market, increased migration - these are all provoking major economic, social, and political shifts. These shifts need to be better understood if we are to address them in a positive and effective manner.

Roberto Azevedo

PositiveManagementBetterPolitical

Everybody recommends New Zealand. I really want to learn this haka, the traditional dance - I love it; it's so cool.

Luka Sulic

LoveDanceCoolLearnNewWant

'7 Years' is, you could say, a song that eats its own children. That we need to get past the song and get to the person and get to the record and get to the music so we can keep releasing.

Lukas Forchhammer

MusicChildrenPastSongYouPerson

For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.

Lizzy Caplan

WorkDecisionMoneyPastSmart

If you don't believe in yourself, somewhere or another, you sabotage yourself.

Jason Day

Believe In YourselfYourselfBelieve

My father is a very hardworking guy, and that's his focus in life, so I got a lot of the paternal attention that a boy wants and needs from my grandfather.

Donald Trump, Jr.

LifeFatherFocusAttentionBoyGuy

Once I have a book in my head, I write progressive drafts fast and obsessively and have trouble sleeping.

Dean Bakopoulos

BookFastTroubleSleepingWrite

I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.

Common

I AmFeelArtistWantPlacesThings

I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.

Bob Woodward

OpportunityPeopleRespondGiveBeen

Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's.

Brock Yates

CareerLateRiseRegardlessDid

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