"It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani."
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"The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music."
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"If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree."
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"An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience."
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"In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if Alexander Graham Bell had fallen into the Grand River and drowned that day back in Brantford, the world would still have had the telephone, the only difference being that the telephone company would have been nicknamed Ma Gray, not Ma Bell."
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"Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement."
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"The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought to use bombs at all."
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"I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk."
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"Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart."
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"People are in one of two states in a relationship,” Gottman went on. “The first is what I call positive sentiment override, where positive emotion overrides irritability. It’s like a buffer. Their spouse will do something bad, and they’ll say, ‘Oh, he’s just in a crummy mood.’ Or they can be in negative sentiment override, so that even a relatively neutral thing that a partner says gets perceived as negative."
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"[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet."
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"Have you ever wondered... how religious movements get started? Usually, we think of them as a product of highly charismatic evangelists... but the spread of any new and contagious ideology also has a lot to do with the skillful use of group power."
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"That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting."
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"..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions."
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"if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition"
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"In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning."
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"The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence."
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"Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish"
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"It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to come to a better understanding of who we are than people who have known us for years."
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"Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs."
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