Quotes of: Spencer-tracy Keyword

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

Lyall Watson

When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.

Martha Beck

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

Martha Beck

If you're feeling intransigently ambivalent, it might pay to formally accept what's already happening - that is, decide not to decide.

Martha Beck

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.

Martha Beck

I always felt that it was my job to try to help other people get it and deal with it.

Martha Beck

Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic.

Martha Beck

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

Mary Catherine Bateson

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

Mary Leakey

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

Mary Leakey

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.

Mary Leakey

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

Margaret Mead

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

Michael Schudson

Advertising generally works to reinforce consumer trends rather than to initiate them.

Michael Schudson

We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.

Nicholas A. Christakis

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

Todd Gitlin

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.

Jonathan Mayhew

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.

Kevin Mitnick

People don't like it, but inevitably we need to think about both the costs and the benefits of health care. We cannot avoid the financial consequences.

Steven Levitt

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Ruth Benedict

Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a turnaround in this childhood obesity epidemic.

S. Jay Olshansky