"Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events."
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"While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline."
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"You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important."
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"You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact."
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"Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story."
1
"If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss."
1
"While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality."
1
"I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest rates, but allow for people to avoid being exposed to inflation risk."
2
"You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom."
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"If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it."
1
"What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent."
1
"When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom."
1
"True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people."
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"Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense."
2
"Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask, 'What if' and 'Why not' They're not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don't disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better."
2
"I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we'll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn't know anything about other religions 100 years ago."
2
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
1
"Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this."
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"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy."
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"The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become."
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