"Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know."

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Steven Pinker

#Perspective Quotes #Suffering Quotes #World Quotes

“In a couple of years, I'll be the most glamorous woman, hopefully.”
“We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable judgment of feeling.”
“It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.”
“Managers who extensively plan the future get the timing wrong.”

Source : "Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos". Book by Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Shona Brown, 1998.
“Time waits for no ovary.”
“I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.”
“If you feel like you've got something to offer you should do it while the iron's hot.”
“I see and approve better things, but follow worse.”

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