A Quote by Alice Roberts
The real hallmarks of humanity are: curiosity and an amazing ability to cooperate.
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I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would agree that curiosity is not the most important human trait; the urge to collaborate is. Heck . . . only we have the ability to cooperate to make like online communities and space telescopes and imaginariums and movies. So the great thrill of this whole experience [my novel being made into a movie] for me was . .. .seeing humanity do what it's best at, which ultimately is not competing but cooperating.
Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.
Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species.
The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.
One of the hallmarks of higher education and of democracy is the ability to converse with people with whom we disagree.
One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward
The ability and willingness to keep two opposing views in mind at the same time are hallmarks of adulthood.
There are a lot of reasons for not doing something. And if humanity had come up with all the reasons for not doing something we wouldn't have spread across the Earth the way we have. There's a curiosity, and I would submit that that curiosity will put human beings on the surface of Mars.
When I read War and Peace in Norway, really far away from humanity for a long time, it was such an amazing, affirming blast of "humanity" in all forms. It totally cracked my mind-nut open and rainbows shot out. I loved humanity and being alive, rather than wanting to bury my head in the snow.
For revolutionary Cubans, to cooperate with other poor and exploited peoples has always been a political principle and a duty towards humanity.
Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing. After all, the thinking goes, if we can't be amazing all the time, better to reset the expectation to merely good. Which robs us of the ability to (sometimes) be amazing.
It is as much our obligation not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good
If I cooperate with you, and you cooperate with me, I will keep cooperating with you.
Real power is having the ability and the resources to tell an amazing story or to say 'yes' to a filmmaker and change not only the filmmaker's life but the world.
The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple man with a burning curiosity. It was through his curiosity that he made many real contributions to medical science.
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