I could see only from my own closed perspective, and I was deeply resistant to any suggestion that the truth was other than what I was thinking.
“one study found that the higher your best friend’s IQ at age eleven or twelve, the higher your IQ would be at age fifteen, even after controlling for natural levels of intelligence”
― Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
― Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
“Let that be a lesson to you: If you are too good and too quiet for too long, it will cost you. It will always cost you, in the end.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“How do you report on a president who will look you in the eye and tell you something he knows is not true? How do you maintain standards of fairness and objectivity when reporting on somebody who has branded you a traitor to your own country?”
― Front Row at the Trump Show
― Front Row at the Trump Show
“Between 2003 and 2012, S&P 500 companies spent 91 percent of their earnings on buybacks and dividends for shareholders. That leaves 9 percent to invest across the entire company, in everything from research and development to worker wages.”
― The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
― The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
“If you’re a thief, accuse your enemies of thievery. If corrupt, accuse your rivals of corruption. If a coward, accuse others of cowardice. Evidence is irrelevant; the goal is to dilute the truth and the case against you with ‘everyone does it.’ ”
― Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth
― Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth
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