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David Brooks quotes: If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect. If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect.
David Brooks quotes: I do think economic and social anxiety is the number one issue. And I'm pretty confident Hillary Clinton will be really riding that train pretty hard. I do think economic and social anxiety is the number one issue. And I'm pretty confident Hillary Clinton will be really riding that train pretty hard.
David Brooks quotes: Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for. Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.
David Brooks quotes: Pride deludes us into thinking that we are the authors of our own lives. Pride deludes us into thinking that we are the authors of our own lives.
David Brooks quotes: I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?" I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"
David Brooks quotes: It's a completely irrational decision to drop out of school. It's a completely irrational decision to drop out of school.
David Brooks quotes: [T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness. [T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.
David Brooks quotes: The natural human reaction is to greet hatred with hatred, revenge by revenge. That's the natural genetic reaction. The natural human reaction is to greet hatred with hatred, revenge by revenge. That's the natural genetic reaction.
David Brooks quotes: When you're running for president you have to take some risks and you've got to show people something fresh and you've got to stay interesting. When you're running for president you have to take some risks and you've got to show people something fresh and you've got to stay interesting.
David Brooks quotes: Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know. Human beings are primarily defined by what we desire, not what we know.
David Brooks quotes: With the case of [Mike] Pence, giving a little aurora of likability to a candidate, a lead candidate who's a little lacking in that department. With the case of [Mike] Pence, giving a little aurora of likability to a candidate, a lead candidate who's a little lacking in that department.
David Brooks quotes: First, they had good character. They were energetic, honest, and dependable. They were persistent after setbacks and acknowledged their mistakes. First, they had good character. They were energetic, honest, and dependable. They were persistent after setbacks and acknowledged their mistakes.
David Brooks quotes: We're not bad. But we are morally inarticulate. We're not bad. But we are morally inarticulate.
David Brooks quotes: It's only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward? It's only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?
David Brooks quotes: Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction. Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction.
David Brooks quotes: Most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road. Most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.
David Brooks quotes: Fundamentalism is still on the march. Fundamentalism is still on the march.
David Brooks quotes: That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy. That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.
David Brooks quotes: I hope that in victory we are more grateful than proud. I hope that in victory we are more grateful than proud.
David Brooks quotes: Live life as a series of revelations Live life as a series of revelations
David Brooks quotes: We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions. We have the choice to choose how we're going to educate our emotions.
David Brooks quotes: The ultimate joys are moral joys. The ultimate joys are moral joys.
David Brooks quotes: A person who is interrupted while performing a task takes 50% more time to complete it and make 50% more errors. A person who is interrupted while performing a task takes 50% more time to complete it and make 50% more errors.
David Brooks quotes: I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket. I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket.
David Brooks quotes: The imagination offers up ideal visions of experiences which then leave us disappointed when the visions don't come true. The imagination offers up ideal visions of experiences which then leave us disappointed when the visions don't come true.
David Brooks quotes: The world is immeasurably complex and the private stock of reason is small. The world is immeasurably complex and the private stock of reason is small.
David Brooks quotes: I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing about gluttony. I'm not the most emotionally attuned guy in the world. My wife says that me writing about emotion is like Gandhi writing about gluttony.
David Brooks quotes: Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language. Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.
David Brooks quotes: If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK. If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK.
David Brooks quotes: I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles. I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles.
David Brooks quotes: A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by. A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.
David Brooks quotes: Love is the strongest kind of army because it generates no resistance. Love is the strongest kind of army because it generates no resistance.
David Brooks quotes: I'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera. I'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera.
David Brooks quotes: Women, in general, are less visually aroused than men, a trait that has nearly cut the market for pornography in half. Women, in general, are less visually aroused than men, a trait that has nearly cut the market for pornography in half.
David Brooks quotes: It's not that Egypt doesn't have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients. It's not that Egypt doesn't have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients.
David Brooks quotes: People tend to marry people with similar-width noses, eyes similarly apart, with complementary immune systems. People tend to marry people with similar-width noses, eyes similarly apart, with complementary immune systems.
David Brooks quotes: President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election. President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.
David Brooks quotes: How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you? How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?
David Brooks quotes: People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time. People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.
David Brooks quotes: As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were. As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.
David Brooks quotes: Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends. Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.
David Brooks quotes: I want to try to make big films that hopefully connect with people. I want to try to make big films that hopefully connect with people.
David Brooks quotes: Trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion. Trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.
David Brooks quotes: People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time. People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time.
David Brooks quotes: The only way to reduce ugliness in the world is to reduce it in yourself, The only way to reduce ugliness in the world is to reduce it in yourself,
David Brooks quotes: When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward. When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward.
David Brooks quotes: Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don't come out healed; they come out different. Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don't come out healed; they come out different.
David Brooks quotes: You are the spiritual entity that emerges out of the material networks in your head. You are the spiritual entity that emerges out of the material networks in your head.
David Brooks quotes: In the evenings she got on her knees and inflicted her piety on her sister: In the evenings she got on her knees and inflicted her piety on her sister:
David Brooks quotes: There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself. There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself.
David Brooks quotes: Always take your job seriously, never yourself. Always take your job seriously, never yourself.
David Brooks quotes: We really do have dappled souls. We really do have dappled souls.
David Brooks quotes: Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks ... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge. Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks ... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.
David Brooks quotes: Humility is the awareness that there's a lot you don't know and that a lot of what you think you know is distorted or wrong. Humility is the awareness that there's a lot you don't know and that a lot of what you think you know is distorted or wrong.
David Brooks quotes: She was carried along by events, not reflecting on them, just letting them sweep over her. She was carried along by events, not reflecting on them, just letting them sweep over her.
David Brooks quotes: The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves. The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.
David Brooks quotes: College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few. College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few.
David Brooks quotes: If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization. If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.
David Brooks quotes: (A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits. (A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.
David Brooks quotes: I want to limit the effects of the power of donors, no question about it. I want to limit the effects of the power of donors, no question about it.
David Brooks quotes: Sin is the punishment of sin. Sin is the punishment of sin.
David Brooks quotes: The parental relationship sits outside the the logic of meritocracy and is the closest humans come to grace. The parental relationship sits outside the
the logic of meritocracy and is the closest humans come to grace.
David Brooks quotes: Freedom without structure is its own slavery. Freedom without structure is its own slavery.
David Brooks quotes: If you have realistically low expectations, you'll end up pleased in most circumstances. If you have realistically low expectations, you'll end up pleased in most circumstances.
David Brooks quotes: The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own. The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.
David Brooks quotes: The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate. The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.
David Brooks quotes: The people we admire the most are rooted in nature, but have surpassed nature. The people we admire the most are rooted in nature, but have surpassed nature.
David Brooks quotes: They possess the self- effacing virtues of people who are inclined to be useful but don't need to prove anything to the world: They possess the self- effacing virtues of people who are inclined to be useful but don't need to prove anything to the world:
David Brooks quotes: The imagination simplifies our endless desires and causes us to fantasize that they can be fulfilled. The imagination simplifies our endless desires and causes us to fantasize that they can be fulfilled.
David Brooks quotes: Moderation is not just finding the midpoint between two opposing poles and opportunistically planting yourself there. Moderation is not just finding the midpoint between two opposing poles and opportunistically planting yourself there.
David Brooks quotes: Sin is a necessary piece of our mental furniture because it reminds us that life is a moral affair. Sin is a necessary piece of our mental furniture because it reminds us that life is a moral affair.
David Brooks quotes: It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most. It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.
David Brooks quotes: Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive. Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.
David Brooks quotes: Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation. Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.
David Brooks quotes: The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level. The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.
David Brooks quotes: We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness. We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.
David Brooks quotes: Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety. Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.
David Brooks quotes: Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling. Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.
David Brooks quotes: Pride blinds us to the reality of our divided nature. Pride blinds us to the reality of our divided nature.
David Brooks quotes: I make honorable things pleasant to children. A teacher from Sparta I make honorable things pleasant to children. A teacher from Sparta
David Brooks quotes: Harrison had turned social awkwardness into a form of social power. Harrison had turned social awkwardness into a form of social power.
David Brooks quotes: The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them. The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.
David Brooks quotes: aridity of her own marriage at that point or her profound aridity of her own marriage at that point or her profound
David Brooks quotes: Trying to mold one's life around the heroic and deep souls one found in books. Day read as if her whole life depended upon it. Trying to mold one's life around the heroic and deep souls one found in books. Day read as if her whole life depended upon it.
David Brooks quotes: We are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other. We are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other.
David Brooks quotes: People tend to want to live up to their friends' high regard. People tend to want to live up to their friends' high regard.
David Brooks quotes: I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do. I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do.
David Brooks quotes: If you think you can organize your own salvation you are magnifying the very sin that keeps you from it. If you think you can organize your own salvation you are magnifying the very sin that keeps you from it.
David Brooks quotes: Since 2005, a majority of Americans, according to the Gallup poll, have said it was wrong and a mistake to go into Iraq. Since 2005, a majority of Americans, according to the Gallup poll, have said it was wrong and a mistake to go into Iraq.
David Brooks quotes: If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway. If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway.
David Brooks quotes: Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being. Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.
David Brooks quotes: I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life. I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.
David Brooks quotes: tried to raise money for him, to enhance tried to raise money for him, to enhance
David Brooks quotes: As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place that helps that. As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place that helps that.
David Brooks quotes: If they would put love of truth above love of career. If they would put love of truth above love of career.
David Brooks quotes: She was just too curious to stay in a self-imposed mental straight-jacket for very long. She was just too curious to stay in a self-imposed mental straight-jacket for very long.
David Brooks quotes: Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way. Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.
David Brooks quotes: I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition. I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition.
David Brooks quotes: They finally achieve a sort of outward-facing union. They finally achieve a sort of outward-facing union.
David Brooks quotes: Agency is not automatic. It has to be given birth to, with pushing and effort. Agency is not automatic. It has to be given birth to, with pushing and effort.

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