Andy Kirkpatrick Quotes

#1. I think you pay people based on their work and not based on gender. It's that simple.

Stana Katic

#2. Understanding an idea meant entangling it so thoroughly with all the other symbols in your mind that it changed the way you thought about everything. Still,

Greg Egan

#3. Usually it's when your guard is down that you find yourself saying the most dick sentences of your life.

Jesse Andrews

#4. Treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't
until you do understand.

Kim Harrison

#5. I don't think being a cynic is necessarily a negative thing. It's a matter of seeing the world with clear and open eyes.

Tom Tomorrow

#6. 897. If you haven't laughed or smiled for 24 hours, you need to rethink what you're doing.

Andy Kirkpatrick

#7. Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#8. I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering from neurodegeneration or acute clinical schizophrenia. It left an indelible mark on my memory.

James Rothman

#9. You should fall because you fail to do the move, not because you fail to try the move.

Andy Kirkpatrick

#10. But like the best empire builders, he was both very determined and very skeptical. It's like [former Intel CEO] Andy Grove says, 'only the paranoid survive.

David Kirkpatrick

#11. When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the separate hemispheres.

Roger Wolcott Sperry

#12. Thoughts become things.

Mike Dooley

#13. Listen, Alex," she says, whipping herself around and tossing that sun-kissed hair over her shoulder. She faces me with clear eyes made of ice. "I don't date guys in gangs, and I don't use drugs."
"I don't date guys in gangs, either," I say, stepping closer to her.

Simone Elkeles

#14. It's not dying that is the problem, he said. 'Climbing is like a lover, and your wife knows this. Whenever you are together, no matter how much you love your family, your thoughts are only of your lover, of climbing.

Andy Kirkpatrick

#15. The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

Plato