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If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect.
— David Brooks
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
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
It's a completely irrational decision to drop out of school.
— David Brooks
Some sins, such as anger and lust, are like wild beasts. They have to be fought through habits of restraint.
— David Brooks
Alice had to be small to enter Wonderland.
— David Brooks
Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.
— David Brooks
We're not bad. But we are morally inarticulate.
— David Brooks
It's only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?
— David Brooks
You can't counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision.
— David Brooks
Fundamentalism is still on the march.
— David Brooks
I hope that in victory we are more grateful than proud.
— David Brooks
A person who is interrupted while performing a task takes 50% more time to complete it and make 50% more errors.
— David Brooks
I don't know if I'm sexist, though I have not paid much attention to the women's bracket.
— David Brooks
The imagination offers up ideal visions of experiences which then leave us disappointed when the visions don't come true.
— David Brooks
If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK.
— David Brooks
The cognitive sciences have replaced literature as the way many people attempt to understand their own minds.
— David Brooks
I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles.
— David Brooks
Humanities are the instructors of enchantment.
— David Brooks
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
Sin is also a necessary piece of our mental furniture because sin is communal, while error is individual.
— David Brooks
People tend to marry people with similar-width noses, eyes similarly apart, with complementary immune systems.
— David Brooks
Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.
— David Brooks
How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?
— David Brooks
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
If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.
— David Brooks
Trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.
— David Brooks
Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don't come out healed; they come out different.
— David Brooks
I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program.
— David Brooks
The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves.
— David Brooks
The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same.
— David Brooks
The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.
— David Brooks
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
aridity of her own marriage at that point or her profound
— David Brooks
Moderation is not just finding the midpoint between two opposing poles and opportunistically planting yourself there.
— David Brooks
The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.
— David Brooks
He read vividly.
— David Brooks
I'm not a kicker and a screamer.
— David Brooks
David Brooks's The Social Animal. I recommend chapters 3 through 9, which give a far richer account than what I think about the subject.
— Mark M. Weber
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
It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.
— David Brooks
If you think you can organize your own salvation you are magnifying the very sin that keeps you from it.
— David Brooks
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
She was just too curious to stay in a self-imposed mental straight-jacket for very long.
— David Brooks
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
Joy is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes.
— David Brooks
People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.
— David Brooks
It's impossible for one person to think of everything.
— David Brooks
Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.
— David Brooks
David ran through concrete advantages. And then set aside the practical. The pragmatist was gone, replaced by the poet and mystic.
— Geraldine Brooks
tried to raise money for him, to enhance
— David Brooks
We really do have dappled souls.
— David Brooks
Samuel Johnson placed this on his watch as a reminder near the end of his life; The night cometh.
— David Brooks
Today, the word "sin" has lost its power
— David Brooks
Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.
— David Brooks
If they would put love of truth above love of career.
— David Brooks
Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure
— David Brooks
I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.
— David Brooks
We are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other.
— David Brooks
David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.
— Geraldine Brooks
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
What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.
— David Brooks
Always take your job seriously, never yourself.
— David Brooks
Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.
— David Brooks
I want to make big films. That's always been my ambition.
— David Brooks
The parental relationship sits outside the the logic of meritocracy and is the closest humans come to grace. — David Brooks
The priest Zadok looked stricken. He had hoped to bargain information for a higher price. Now I, as a prophet, had given it to David for free.
— Geraldine Brooks
Every virtue can come with its own accompanying vice. The virtue of reticence can yield the vice of aloofness.
— David Brooks
The more people doubt their own beliefs the more, paradoxically, they are inclined to proselytize in favor of them.
— David Brooks
I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.
— David Brooks
Her genius derives from the fact that she was capable of the deepest feeling but also of the most discerning and disciplined thought.
— David Brooks
(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.
— David Brooks
Pride blinds us to the reality of our divided nature.
— David Brooks
Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook.
— Henry David Thoreau
