Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Alison Gopnik Quotes

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Knowledge Practice You Automatic

I have such a fortunate life that of course I will have my detractors. I have a very endowed life.

Life Will Fortunate Course Very

I think in terms of 20-year horizons.

Think I Think Horizons Terms

Only in Chicago do they care more about who the mayor is than who's president.

Care Chicago President More Mayor

Legal immigrants have been an engine of economic growth, innovation, and entrepreneurship on this continent for longer than we have been a nation.

Growth Innovation Legal Immigrants

In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of.

Life Business Community Government

No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have.

Life Win Win Or Lose Enjoy You Lose

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.

Myself Story Think Pictures Write

I think it goes back to whether or not race and class - that is, race and poverty - is not becoming even more of a constraint. Because with the failing public schools, I worry that the way that my grandparents got out of poverty, the way that my parents became educated, is just not going to be there for a whole bunch of kids.

Condoleezza Rice

Parents Think Worry Poverty Back

The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.

Nature Fear God Light Soul Man

One of my favorites is one called 'Rory's Radio' that I wrote about my brother Jeff's best friend growing up - his name was Rory Dunigan. I dedicated my first record to my brother, who got killed in a car accident in 1999, and I really didn't have any songs on the first album about him, nothing on a personal note.

Ashton Shepherd

Friend Car Best Brother Growing Up

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

Advertising Rest Information Critic

Part of me always longed to do just one more film and see what Luke would be like now that he's on the level of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the student having become the master. But it was not meant to be.

Me Student Meant To Be Now Become

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Alison Gopnik