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We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Anything Attention Bad Children Distracted Easily Get Interesting Mean Paying Really Say

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Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: About Cycle Desire Endless Finally Get Happy Human Johnson Make Mean Nearly Plan Psychologists Samuel Say Social Talk Them Things Think Thought Trapped Treadmill Us Vanity Will Wish Wishes Work

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Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Answers Course Expect Get Good Good Thing Knowing Lets More Otherwise Quickly Really Right Teacher Than Thing Would You

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Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: About Baseball Famous Game Get Graduate Graduate School High High School High School Students History Imagine Inner-City Lectures Most Nobody Occasionally Past Plays Reproduce School Schools Science Series Students Taught The History Of Themselves Until Way Were World World Series Would

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Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally.

~Alison Krauss

Topics: Come Everybody Fit Get Get Together Going Like Loved Match Might Now Over Personally Place Point Predict Right Something Songs Think Together Up Working Years Years And Years You

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I don't get recognised in London or at home either - very seldom anyway. Either that or I look so crazy no one wants to come up to me.

~Alison Krauss

Topics: Anyway Come Crazy Either Get Home London Look Me Recognised Seldom Up Very Wants

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I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine.

~Alison Lohman

Topics: About Before Each Even Fine Get Go Hits Kind Minutes Nervous Once Onstage Performance Really Sometimes Still Though Want 15 Minutes

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I get along great with my family. My parents are really proud of me and my brother, who's a chef here in New York. I don't see my parents often, but they're very supportive, especially as I get older.

~Alison Mosshart

Topics: Along Brother Chef Family Get Great Here Me New New York Often Older Parents Proud Really See Supportive Very York

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When you're recording in the midst of touring, you get a different sense about you. Things are more rocking, darker, heavier and louder. You're thinking about the audience that you're seeing every night.

~Alison Mosshart

Topics: About Audience Darker Different Every Every Night Get Heavier Louder Midst More Night Recording Rocking Seeing Sense Things Thinking Touring You

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I love touring. I can't wait. Everything is just normal when you're finally on tour. I think, for me, it's my happiest thing; I love moving around, and I have friends and family all over the place. It's kind of my time. It's almost like home. It's when I get to see everybody.

~Alison Mosshart

Topics: Almost Around Everybody Everything Family Finally Friends Friends And Family Get Happiest Home Just Kind Like Love Me Moving My Time Normal Over Place See Thing Think Time Tour Touring Wait You I Think I Love

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