David Brooks

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure. ↗

— David Brooks

#life

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure ↗

— David Brooks

#life

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness. ↗

— David Brooks

#love

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. ↗

— David Brooks

#form #known #logical #lunacy #procedure

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams. ↗

— David Brooks

#aspirations #certain #clash #competitive #culture

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas. ↗

— David Brooks

#character #cover #hold #how #ideas

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way. ↗

— David Brooks

#born #did #family #into #matters

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time. ↗

— David Brooks

#people #reality #right #tells #them

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them. ↗

— David Brooks

#just #poor #rich #them