Allegra Goodman Quotes

#1. When I go home to Pennsylvania, my cousins who live in small towns and are twenty-three with kids are like 'Krysten, when are you getting married?' 'When are you having a kid?' Honestly, those aren't the most important things to me right now.

Krysten Ritter

#2. Anyone who has ever been able to sustain good work has had at least one person
and often many
who have believed in him or her. We just don't get to be competent human beings without a lot of different investments from others.

Fred Rogers

#3. The new one actually reads, but only to pass judgment. This is the way kids learn today. Someone told them how you feel is more important than what you know, and so they think accusations are ideas. This is political correction run amok.

Allegra Goodman

#4. We've got an acquisitive gene. We want and want, and there's no way around it.

Allegra Goodman

#5. I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.

Joel Osteen

#6. It's really hard to smile when you play. As a performer, if I ever find myself focusing, it's like, 'Oh no - orchestra face!' It's not attractive at all, so I have to focus on smiling.

Lindsey Stirling

#7. Talent and intelligence, not to mention tireless hard work, got lab scientists through the door, but - this was the dirty secret - you needed luck.

Allegra Goodman

#8. She herself vacillated when it came to belief. She did not particularly believe in God. Or, rather, she didn't believe in a particular God. Nevertheless, she kept an open mind. She was not a melancholy agnostic, but the optimistic kind. She liked to give God the benefit of the doubt.

Allegra Goodman

#9. There's a small club of women who are willing to age.

Debra Winger

#10. Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.

Allegra Goodman

#11. Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

Allegra Goodman

#12. If you love your country, then you need to be thinking a lot more critically about what justice.

Bryan Stevenson

#13. People ask every day, "Why was I put on earth?" As if there is perhaps one reason. The truth is that there are too many reasons to count, and each reason and each soul connects to every other,

Allegra Goodman

#14. Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.

Philip Yancey

#15. How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end.

Allegra Goodman

#16. I never fell in love with another woman. I cannot have a relationship with a woman if I'm not in love ... I'm a very particular person, I'm not very much interested in short adventures with women or girls. I have to fall in love with someone in order to have a realtionship with her.

Omar Sharif

#17. To go to the wine house and not to get drunk is as difficult as to dive into a pool and not get wet!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

B.R. Ambedkar

#19. Reading was like visiting distant friends.

Allegra Goodman

#20. There aren't many things as therapeutic as smiles and laughter. Whenever you look at things in a lighter vein, it shows that your heart is in the right place.

Douglas Pagels

#21. I have a dark sense of humor,' Fanny explained.
'What's that supposed to mean?' asked Honor.
'It means I'm funny once you get to know me,' Fanny said.

Allegra Goodman

#22. My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.

Sally Mann

#23. It's got two aspects. The bit that involves the public life I could not really tolerate and cannot really tolerate. I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that.

Zadie Smith

#24. Leaders are not worried about what they can't do; they know themselves very well and focus on what they can do. Think this way if you are willing to lead!

Israelmore Ayivor

#25. Vigilance in oneself is very important. Vigilance means to be alert to what happens inside, so you can catch an old, collective habit pattern.

Eckhart Tolle

#26. Though experience should be our guide ... and we see mistakes are common at the age of twenty-three, it must be acknowledged that not every youthful feeling begins unworthily and ends in error. If this were the case, mankind would have perished long ago.

Allegra Goodman