David Brooks Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• We don't have the choice to control our emotions, but we do have the power to educate our emotions. And we do that through literature and through art and music to give ourselves a repertoire of emotional experiences.

  David Brooks

  Art, Emotional, Giving

  "David Brooks: From Spouses to Sofas, ‘Emotions Tell Us What to Value’". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 8, 2011.

• The school asks a person who has achieved a certain level of career success to give you a speech telling you that career success is not important.

  David Brooks

  Inspirational, Graduation, School

• Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save us from our weaknesses and give meaning to life.

  David Brooks

  Giving, Weakness, Conformity

• People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.

  David Brooks

  People, Giving, Amount

  "Shields and Brooks on the pope’s critique of capitalism, Thanksgiving gratitude". "PBS NewsHour" with Hari Sreenivasan, www.pbs.org. November 29, 2013.

• People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic. They have some issue. They have some interest. It may be world peace. It may be preserving carried interest. But it's not altruistic.

  David Brooks

  Issues, People, Giving

  "Shields and Brooks on the pope’s critique of capitalism, Thanksgiving gratitude". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. November 29, 2013.

• With the case of [Mike] Pence, giving a little aurora of likability to a candidate, a lead candidate who's a little lacking in that department.

  David Brooks

  Giving, Aurora, Littles

  "Shields and Brooks on the Hillary Clinton veepstakes, the latest Trump-Cruz dustup". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. July 22, 2016.

• What you hear in focus groups and conversations, people will give you 20 minutes of rage about how the borders are out of control. But then you start saying, practically, what are we going to do about it? What are we going to do about the 11 million here? What are we going to do to get some workers we need for the farms? Then people start having a normal conversation.

  David Brooks

  People, Giving, Focus

• The more attention Hillary Clinton gives to the country, the less people seem to like her.

  David Brooks

  Country, People, Giving

  Source: www.npr.org

• My colleague Ross Douthat wrote that any time you give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt, he always lets you down.

  David Brooks

  Giving, Doubt, Benefit Of The Doubt

  Source: www.pbs.org

• If you're running a successful administration, then you're loyal to people who are basically good who make a mistake. And that seems to be essential for any organization. And it should be essential if this were a normal administration, rather than a fiefdom, where everybody simply tries to give Donald Trump a good headline every day.

  David Brooks

  Running, Mistake, Successful

  Source: www.pbs.org

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