David Brooks quotes

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time. (David Brooks)
Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone. View quote
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Live life as a series of revelations. View quote
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The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come. View quote
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We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words. View quote
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To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. View quote
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It's not that Egypt doesn't have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients. View quote
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Britain is blessed with a functioning political culture. It is dominated by people who live in London and who have often known each other since prep school. This makes it gossipy and often incestuous. View quote
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This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate. View quote
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I think globalization has been really good for America. View quote
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People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness. (David Brooks)
The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them. View quote
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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. View quote
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Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure. View quote
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We don't have the choice to control our emotions, but we do have the power to educate our emotions. And we do that through literature and through art and music to give ourselves a repertoire of emotional experiences. View quote
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Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest. View quote
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We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness. View quote
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It's only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward? View quote
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One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways. View quote
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Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge. View quote
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Freedom without structure is its own slavery. (David Brooks)
Things that change history tend to be organized. View quote
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People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic. View quote
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The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind. View quote
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Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being. View quote
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