David Brooks Quotes
A person who is interrupted while performing a task takes 50% more time to complete it and make 50% more errors.
You can't counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision.
Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.
The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.
wonderful people are made, not born – that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable inner virtue, built slowly from specific moral and spiritual accomplishments.
How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?
Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.
most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.
College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few.
Apparently, we have become such a hyper-individualized culture that it is impossible to develop an argument based on how individual cases fit into the fabric of the common good.
