Richard Nisbett Quotes

#1. The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.

Malcolm Gladwell

#2. The central idea of love is not even a relationship commitment, the first thing is a personal commitment to be the best version of yourself with or without that person that you're with. You have to every single day-mind, body, and spirit-wake up with a commitment to be better.

Will Smith

#3. When you went away, you left me nothing but the sun-bleached world. You did not even leave me a heart to bleed with. I found I was standing there with no body, and so no voice for calling you.

Helene Cixous

#4. You're a bad person, Ellie," he said without a trace of irony.
"I'm not bad. The world is bad and I'm just trying to survive in it.

Karina Halle

#5. Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

James Woods

#6. The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to eradicate it.

Martin Luther

#7. Whether you're heroic or heartless may depend on a contextual factor whose impact is far greater than we would tend to assume.

Richard E. Nisbett

#8. objectivity arose from subjectivity - the recognition that two minds could have different representations of the world and that the world has an existence independent of either representation. This

Richard E. Nisbett

#9. What we do with this peace-whether we preserve it and defend it, or whether we lose it and let it slip away-will be the measure of our worthiness of the spirit and sacrifice of the hundreds of thousands who gave their lives in two World Wars, Korea, and in Vietnam.

Richard M. Nixon

#10. I am an adult, but a damaged one.

S.J. Watson

#11. If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper.

Antonio Munoz Molina

#12. What nature hath joined together, multiple regression analysis cannot put asunder.

Richard E. Nisbett

#13. My agent said that every Monday after an episode of 'Entourage,' at the staff meeting at the agency, that's all they do is talk about the episode the night before.

Kevin Connolly

#14. I love traveling; it's, like, my perfect escape.

Michael Steger

#15. The real question isn't "Why aren't you strong enough?" It's "Why do you keep doubting that you already are?

Linda Francis Lee