Mark Goulston Quotes

One reason some people are long-winded is because they're trying to impress their conversational counterpart with how smart they are, often because they don't actually feel that way underneath. If this is the case for you, realize that continuing to talk will only cause the other person to be less impressed.

Mark Goulston

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SmartPeopleFeelTryingYouPerson

I support giving President Obama the ability to negotiate and complete new trade agreements with some of the fastest-growing economies in the world.

John Delaney

SupportWorldGivingNewPresident

I like going in to different styles of acting and exploring stuff I haven't done before.

Mel Gibson

ActingDoneExploringGoingStuff

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

Robert Kiyosaki

BeautifulWorldHawaiiPlacesMean

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

FamilyFatherRelationshipImportant

There's an old rule in neuroscience that does not alter with age: use it or lose it. It is a very hopeful principle when applied to critical thought in the reading brain because it implies choice.

Maryanne Wolf

AgeBrainReadingThoughtLoseOld

I've been hurt quite a few times.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

HurtBeenQuiteFewTimes

Antiheroes who are sort of honest to themselves are the ones you root for. Like, Barry Seal isn't trying to be anything other than he is. He isn't fooling anybody per se.

Doug Liman

TryingYouAnythingHonestWhoLike

I am lucky enough to be married to a guy who tells me I look beautiful every day.

Debra Winger

BeautifulDayI AmMeEnoughLook

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

Chinua Achebe

LovePassionHeartBeautifulPoetry

Traditionally, when you talk to people who have Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, they'll talk about how they're in five or six studies, and they've been sequenced by each study. That's just fat in the system. Just have a single data set that then you can share. You can make the entire system more efficient.

Anne Wojcicki

PeopleFatDataYouTalkStudy

The idea of close encounters of the zero'th kind - which is to say, not a close encounter at all, but simply uncovering evidence that someone's out there - dates back to the Victorian era.

Seth Shostak

SomeoneBackSayKindEvidenceOut

For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.

Tipper Gore

BetterNeedMentalDiagnosisAccess

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