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

Daniel Gilbert Quotes

The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 5, 1957

Topics

Good Truth Good Things Truth Is Bad

When I went to my local grammar school, Lurgan College, girls were not encouraged to study science. My parents hit the roof and, along with other parents, demanded a curriculum change.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Change Science School Parents Study

When I heard that 'Dracula' was being made into a series by NBC and Carnival, I couldn't resist. I knew they would do something interesting with it. A period drama with a supernatural twist seemed like a whole lot of fun.

Jessica De Gouw

Fun Interesting Drama Something Made

I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.

Jeremy Grantham

Think Bag Way Out Paper Brown

My school reports always used to point out that my concentration levels were appalling. I never listened in class because I was always daydreaming about racing. I never thought for a moment about doing anything else. There was no guarantee that I'd make a career in it but I never had any plan B.

Moment School Thought Doing Plan

Medicare is a promise we made to seniors more than four decades ago. When President Johnson signed Medicare into law, one in three seniors lived in poverty. Half of seniors had no health coverage at all.

Health Law Poverty Three More Lived

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

Me Remember Forget Understand Tell

'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

Acting Serious Kind Respond Ever

I am a huge, raving fan of writer Matt Fraction. His semi-indie 'Casanova' series is an ongoing masterpiece of 21st-century American comics - and his run on 'Immortal Iron Fist' with Ed Brubaker was pure, yummy martial-arts-fantasy deliciousness.

I Am American Run Masterpiece Pure

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

Admire Like Very Universally Tend

I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools.

Myself Think Conservative See I See

I think you've got good people and bad people in everything you do. If you start making a big deal of it, then it's a problem. It's like in life. We've got bad doctors and lawyers. We've got bad priests! We don't target every priest and say he's bad. You have to go to church and you have to go see some doctors. Some people have to be good.

Life Good People Start Think Church

I count Joseph Smith among those whose testimony of Christ helped me to develop my own testimony of the Savior. Before I recognized the tutoring of the Spirit testifying to me that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, my youthful heart felt that he was a friend of God and would therefore, quite naturally, also be a friend of mine.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Friend God Heart Me Spirit My Own

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Daniel Gilbert