"Stairway to Wisdomâ€) David Brooks detailed the needed ingredients to gaining a deep understanding of a social problem, beginning with the data and moving on to first-hand accounts. The highest rung on his stairway, though, went beyond those: â€œEmpathy opens you up to absorb the good and the bad. Love impels you not just to observe but to seek unionâ€”to think as another thinks and feel as another feels."

-- David Brooks

#Moving Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I like putting a lot of personal touches in the music.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I was a very unpleasant young man. If I met the young Ingmar today I'd say, 'You're very talented and I'll try to help you, but I don't want anything else to do with you.”
“I think a composer is always interested in his last work.”
“The gravest threat faced by the world is of an extremist group getting hold of nuclear weapons or materials.”
“The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.”

Source : "WH Sr Adviser Valerie Jarrett". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. March 28, 2010.
“I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are”
“It's very satisfying to take a problem we thought difficult and find a simple solution. The best solutions are always simple.”
“the systematic abuse with which the newspapers of one side assail every candidate coming forward on the other, is the cause of many honorable men, who have a regard to their reputation, being deterred from entering public life; and of the people being thus deprived of some better servants than any they have.”

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