Top 100 Goldstein Quotes
#1. Goldstein found that on average, the people in his experiment "enjoy more expensive wines slightly less.
Steven D. Levitt
#2. Campground supervisor Stanley Goldstein announced that sandwiches were coming into the Hog Farm compound by National Guard helicopter.
Brad Littleproud
#3. Without having read to the end of the book, he knew that that must be Goldstein's final message. The future belonged to the proles.
George Orwell
#4. In PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein set out to showcase, in sometimes startling ways, the continuing relevance of a classic philosopher. But what's remarkable is that she actually brings off this tour de force with both madcap brilliance and commanding authority.
Michael Dirda
#5. Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered.
Douglas Sirk
#6. Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach.
Ian McEwan
#7. Come, come, come? I'm not asking for hundreds of pounds, just a little to start with. Will someone say ten shillings?'
'I can say it, Father' said Milligan, 'but I haven't got it.'
'I've got it,' thought Dr Goldstein, 'but I'm not going to say it.
Spike Milligan
#8. I say you call yourself Goldstein, Silverstein, and Rubinstein because you're stealing all the gold and silver and rubies all over the earth - and it's true, because of your thieving and stealing and roguing, and lying all over the face of the planet earth.
Khalid Abdul Muhammad
#9. Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.
Norman Mailer
#10. Don't look," said Goldstein, peering over the Charles's shoulder. "We don't know anything about illegal hacking." He whistled cheerily. "Travis Heuter owns half the world.
Patricia Briggs
#11. My friend Joseph Goldstein, one of the finest vipassana teachers I know, likens this shift in awareness to the experience of being fully immersed in a film and then suddenly realizing that you are sitting in a theater watching a mere play of light on a wall.
Sam Harris
#12. Goodbye, Dr Goldstein.' I start to walk away, then stop and turn. 'Oh, and for the record my name's Charlotte.' And turning back, I keep on walking. Somehow I don't think that's a name he's going to forget in a hurry.
Alexandra Potter
#13. I don't think you're supposed to be able to get at that information," said Leslie.
"Don't look," said Goldstein, peering over Charles's shoulder. "We don't know anything about illegal hacking." He whistled cheerily.
Patricia Briggs
#14. The dull rhythmic tramp of the soldiers' boots formed the background to Goldstein's bleating voice.
George Orwell
#15. the recent novel by his wife Rebecca Goldstein, entitled 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, subtitled A Work of Fiction). The
Jonathan Sacks
#16. Goldstein and his heresies will live for ever. Every day, at every moment, they will be defeated, discredited, ridiculed, spat upon - and yet they will always survive.
George Orwell
#17. I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.
Daniel Goldstein
#18. A person whom one has loved seems altogether too significant a thing to simply vanish altogether from the world. A person whom one loves is a world, just as one knows oneself to be a world.
Rebecca Goldstein
#20. When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.
Al Goldstein
#21. The opposite of a plain truth, Neils Bohr liked to repeat, is a plain falsehood. But the opposite of a deep truth is another deep truth.
Rebecca Goldstein
#22. When he heard his father call out for Abel and he saw his borther go forth, it made him feel like he was nothing. He couldn't even say that he felt like Cain anymore. One could not feel like Cain because it had no flavor. Cain was the absence of flavor. Cain was like saliva or a Wednesday.
Jonathan Goldstein
#23. Nothing-was more degrading than for a woman to have to marry for a home. Love should be the sole reason. Surely those with a brain-to think, eyes to see and a mind-to reason must realise that the capitalist system must cease and a co-operative system prevail in its place.
Vida Goldstein
#24. Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.
Rebecca Goldstein
#25. It is the truth that liberates, not your efforts to be free.
Joseph Goldstein
#26. Forgive me, Paul, and I do get a little abrupt from time to time, but titles don't mean a damn thing. Your boss can give you a title. Your boss can't make people listen to you. You have to earn that. It doesn't sound like you get that yet.
Ken Goldstein
#27. at the city level, support for community control didn't have much to do with teaching and learning. It was about money, political alliances, and power.
Dana Goldstein
#28. Primo Levi's - I mean, he's a very different kind of writer. He's a much more formal writer. He's a much more -almost detached. I mean, I wouldn't really say that he's detached ultimately. But he does write as a scientist, and so he describes things very - in great detail, very carefully.
Ann Goldstein
#29. The thing about animation is that it's a constantly changing process. They talk in terms of sequences - so there's like thirty different sequences in a movie and at anytime those were shifting or being taken out or being replaced.
Jonathan M. Goldstein
#30. We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world.
Rebecca Goldstein
#31. How do you get over a first love?" he asks.
"You never do," Howard says. "It just stays with you and becomes a part of who you are.
Jonathan Goldstein
#32. Mindfulness practice begins to open up everything. We open our mind to memories, to emotions, to different sensations in the body. In meditation this happens in a very organic way, because we are not searching, we are not pulling or probing, we are just sitting and watching.
Joseph Goldstein
#33. To have the translator be a figure in the book's presentation seems like a big thing, especially for a book that's really popular.
Ann Goldstein
#34. The emphasis in meditation is very much on undistracted awareness: not thinking about things, not analyzing, not getting lost in the story, but just seeing the nature of what is happening in the mind. Careful, accurate observation of the moment's reality is the key to the whole process.
Joseph Goldstein
#35. Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young.
Rebecca Goldstein
#36. It's one of the hardest things to translate anything that's not standard.
Ann Goldstein
#37. Decide the friends, mentors & leaders you want in your life, in your inner circle, and court them with emotional generosity. Make it matter.
Gary W. Goldstein
#39. A healthy self and an empty self are not contradictory; it just appears so because we use the same language to describe two different things. The whole path of meditation is about understanding that the self as an unchanging entity is a fiction, an illusory mental construct.
Joseph Goldstein
#40. As Plato: We become more worthy the more we bend our minds to the impersonal. We become better as we take in the universe, thinking more about the largeness that it is and laugh about the smallness that is us.
Rebecca Goldstein
#41. Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.
Rebecca Goldstein
#42. Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind.
'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom
Joseph Goldstein
#43. Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.
Joseph Goldstein
#44. This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.
Rebecca Goldstein
#45. Blau suffered from a mild form of messianism, an ailment as common among Jewish males as nearsightedness. (p. 264)
Rebecca Goldstein
#47. Married life is an existence with bars around it.
Al Goldstein
#48. Nothing at all can prevent the universal process of birth, growth, decay, and death.
Joseph Goldstein
#50. I felt like a young Tony Montana having come to America, except the only person I wanted to kill was myself.
Jonathan Goldstein
#51. Slenderman can invoke memory loss in all but the most resolute - you could have already had a Slenderman encounter and not remember it.
Jack Goldstein
#52. We have a lot of rhetoric today about "high rigor" and you often hear terms like that thrown about when discussing the Common Core. But the American education system historically has not embraced intellectual seriousness.
Dana Goldstein
#54. Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.
Al Goldstein
#55. I am beautiful for a brainy woman, brainy for a beautiful woman, but objectively speaking, neither beautiful nor brainy.
Rebecca Goldstein
#56. Spiritual ardency is the wellspring of a courageous heart. It gives us the strength to continue through all the difficulties of the journey. The question for us is how to practice and cultivate ardency, so that it becomes a powerful and onward-leading force in our lives.
Joseph Goldstein
#57. And one abides independent, not clinging to anything in the world.
Joseph Goldstein
#58. I always hesitate to say that something is lifelike.
Ann Goldstein
#59. Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?
Daniel Goldstein
#60. If you could jerk off to something else, like a hamburger, could you imagine the delight in being alive?
Jonathan Goldstein
#61. Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.
Al Goldstein
#62. So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.
Al Goldstein
#63. Styling is my form of painting. I can understand the process behind it, the being afraid to start, and the diving into it. I've learned not to be afraid of doing something that might not be right. If you don't try then you won't know.
Lori Goldstein
#64. Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don't see it, because we see with it.
Rebecca Goldstein
#65. I like to think of the individual words, then you put the word in the sentence, then you have to think about what that word means in the sentence, then you have to read the sentence in the paragraph - you're sort of building up like that; that's my philosophy.
Ann Goldstein
#66. One evangelical scientist who had felt his doubts falling away from him when he was hiking in the mountains and came upon a frozen waterfall - in fact a trinity of a frozen waterfall, with three parts to it. At that moment, I felt my resistance leave me. And it was a great sense of relief.
Rebecca Goldstein
#67. Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
Al Goldstein
#68. The secret of the demagogue is to appear as dumb as his audience so that these people can believe themselves as smart as he is.
Rebecca Goldstein
#69. To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.
Al Goldstein
#70. I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.
Al Goldstein
#71. In its lifetime, an albatross is believed to fly around fifteen million miles. To put that into perspective, it is the same as flying half way to Mars when it is at its closest distance to the Earth.
Jack Goldstein
#72. Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.
Rebecca Goldstein
#73. Be very careful. We suggest getting a book on HTML to avoid becoming a real legend in the hacker world. Putting up a web page before you know how to put up a web page is generally a very bad idea. The .gov sites are an exception.
Emmanuel Goldstein
#74. One naturally identifies to some extent with an "I" female narrator going through something that you recognize whether you've gone through it or not.
Ann Goldstein
#75. Perspective should be learned - and then forgotten. The residue - a sensitivity to perspective - helps perception, varying with each individual and determined by his responsive needs.
Nathan Goldstein
#76. I think the humanities always have to take science, our great knowledge that we get from science, into account, but then try to answer the human questions and try to make sense out of our lives, taking into account all of the scientific knowledge.
Rebecca Goldstein
#77. Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
Al Goldstein
#78. Having your husband at a party is like adding anchovies to a salad. I love anchovies, but you can't taste anything else.
Rebecca Goldstein
#79. In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.
Al Goldstein
#80. The local-tone is the intrinsic value of a thing - excluding any effects of light. The local-tone of a common pearl is very nearly white; that of a lump of coal, nearly black.
Nathan Goldstein
#81. Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.
Nathan Goldstein
#82. So dogma, doctrine, unexamined assumptions, that's what it is to be sharing that, the hippies shadow, no way of grounding it to reality. It's where we're just cut off from reality unless we can argue, we can substantiate, we can justify, we can convince each other.
Rebecca Goldstein
#83. The tremendous danger is that this belief - that genuine happiness comes only from pleasant feelings - becomes a strong motivation to stay closed to anything unpleasant. But by staying closed to all unpleasantness, we also stay closed to our own wellspring of compassion.
Joseph Goldstein
#84. One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.
Daniel Goldstein
#85. Almost everybody thinks about philosophy, even if they don't realize it's philosophy and even if they have no sense of the difficulty of the problems, the array of possible answers.
Rebecca Goldstein
#86. You should impact the greatest amount of people that you can in your life.
Gary W. Goldstein
#87. The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.
Rebecca Goldstein
#88. One of the peculiar features of philosophical questions is how eager people are to offer solutions that miss the point of the questions. Sometimes these failed solutions are scientific, and sometimes they are religious, and sometimes they are based on what is called plain common sense.
Rebecca Goldstein
#90. The only object we truly possess is our own mind. The only pleasure over which we have complete dominion is the progress of our own understanding.
Rebecca Goldstein
#91. I don't have a philosophy. If I had a philosophy, it's that I'm kind of literal minded. For example, I would never translate poetry - it's too hard, there are too many levels. Not that prose doesn't have many levels, but it's more grounded.
Ann Goldstein
#92. Introduction Did you know that Shakespeare wrote the world's first ever knock knock joke?
Jack Goldstein
#93. I believe everyone in the education sector should be looking at evidence, reassessing, making tweaks to figure out what works, I think it's a positive model.
Dana Goldstein
#94. Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.
Rebecca Goldstein
#95. When you reach round a dark corner to switch on a light, be careful. Slenderman will often run his finger over the back of your hand. This is the first signal of his interest in you.
Jack Goldstein
#96. What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments for observation or discovering new aspects of reality?
Rebecca Goldstein
#97. Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the differences between us, and this is our enslavement.
Rebecca Goldstein
#98. As Plato: It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.
Rebecca Goldstein
#99. I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.
Al Goldstein
#100. The 1844 judgment - more than the state of the dead, the Sabbath, the second coming - establishes the validity of Adventism.
Clifford Goldstein
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