David Brooks Quotes

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

David Brooks

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CharacterAlonePeopleBuilding

I've done a lot of movies that don't have any music in them, and I've always sort of had a kind of wary attitude about music because it can be so manipulative, and also because with pop music, I feel like everybody kind of has their own relationship to songs.

Joe Swanberg

AttitudeMusicRelationshipFeelOwn

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

Michael Lewis

SportsWorldManagerBloomQuote

You'll get, like, 10 pages of sides the night before, and you have to go in and just wing it. For someone like me, I came from the theater, and I don't like putting anything up in front of anybody until it's really, really ready, so it can be very frustrating.

Brian J. Smith

MeNightSomeoneYouReadyGo

One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations.

Brian Behlendorf

ChallengesWorldWealthLivingGap

Hindi is my mother tongue. Even though I do not get to use it as often, it's still a part of me.

Anu Garg

MotherMeTongueGetMother Tongue

The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad.

Wynton Marsalis

GoodHistoryTogetherGood TimesBad

I don't really think about being pigeonholed so much.

Phyllis Smith

ThinkBeingMuchAboutReally

The big challenge with Internet financial services has been that it's very difficult to get large numbers of customers to sign up for your service.

Peter Thiel

ChallengeServiceFinancialInternet

Even though I was manically overachieving and involved in everything, I still never felt like I belonged. That's definitely affected my whole life and why I wanted to become an actor and tell people stories, because communication and feeling like you belong is such an integral part of our social fabric.

Penelope Mitchell

LifeCommunicationPeopleYouBecome

It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.

Tim Robbins

WrongDangerousMafiaKidBecause

I'm focused on creating art and whichever outlet it can get out in.

Rza

ArtCreatingFocusedOutGetOutlet

CEOs who boldly lean into fulfilling the dual mandate of earning profits and providing societal benefits will find a receptive public.

Richard Edelman

FindWillEarningBenefitsWhoLean

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