A Quote by David Brooks

The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.

David Brooks

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David Brooks
American - Politician
Born: August 11, 1961

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The church is not built on the rock foundation of geniuses and influencers but of apostles and prophets.

Russell D. Moore

For the last several decades, there was a prevailing belief among traditional economists that the markets were rational and self-correcting. Alan Greenspan advocated this view. But the 2008 financial crisis showed that this view is incorrect, and Greenspan eventually admitted as much.

Kabir Sehgal

Great businesses can be built on scale. I think Amazon has built a phenomenal commerce business largely on scale. Their network effect isn't obvious to me, but boy, have they used scale effectively.

Jeff Jordan

Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.

Leroy Hood

The prevailing view is that the easy way to stimulate economic growth is to have a low currency.

Gary Cohn

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

Michio Kaku

Baidu Research has three labs - two in Beijing that are already largely built up, and the Silicon Valley one is being built from scratch. We're hiring pretty rapidly, about one person a week, but we are about a month in, so honestly, we haven't done that much work yet.

Andrew Ng

All geniuses born women are lost to the public good.

Mary Pipher

I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.

Clarence Thomas

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

R. Buckminster Fuller

All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

R. Buckminster Fuller

If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?

Joseph Epstein

Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.

Jack Kerouac

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.