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Sam Harris Quotes

Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

Sam Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: April 9, 1967

Topics

Positive Good Children Compassion

No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.

Joe Haldeman

Good Moon Nice Missed Stranger Goes

We as men, in particular black men, are constantly supported, nurtured, forgiven, apologized for, led, followed and coddled by black women, and they get very little in return.

Jesse Williams

Women Men Black Little Return Get

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

John Oliver

British Pessimism

I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Good Because Only Who Knew Dunk

My writing process is chaos. I usually start with an overarching theme. Then I establish several story threads, but I don't outline. I just start writing and keep notes for what may come. It's an organic process that's usually pretty flexible.

Lisa Lutz

Chaos Writing Start Story Process

You start where you can get an opportunity, you take everything that you can do to gain entrance. You do the little work and you try to find people who can teach you.

Jon Voight

Work Opportunity People Start You

The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.

Chris Hardwick

Creative Survival Movement Comics

Everything shifted for me after 'Rush.' It wasn't as financially successful as other things I'd done, but it gave me more movement, more options, more doors opening, more meetings. All of a sudden, it's, 'Oh, wow! You're an actor!'

Chris Hemsworth

Me Meetings Doors You Done Actor

I do feel like I've gotten younger as I've aged.

Claire Danes

Feel Like Younger Aged Gotten

I just happen to like the action-adventure movies. No law that says you can't work in all types of dramatic stuff.

Brandon Lee

Work Law You Movies Happen Dramatic

In college, I was able to be the vocalist for the jazz band at Arkansas State.

Ashley McBryde

College Jazz Band Able State

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

Wislawa Szymborska

Light Words Speech Try Hard Seem