List of Jeffrey Kluger Quotes

Narcissistic Personalities Usually Do Do Better Than You And Me And The Average Person. We've Always Seen It In The Office. The Person Who Speaks Up More In Meetings, The Person Who's Charismatic, Who Can Sell An Idea With More Excitement And Energy.

If We Were A Culture Of High-risk Alcoholics, And Suddenly We Had Jack Daniels Piped Into Our Houses, We Would Be Feeding That Fire. Social Networking, And The Internet As A Whole, Seems To Have Simply Landed In An Extremely Fertile Place In An Extremely Fertile Time In History, When We All Have These Narcissistic Tendencies Anyway - You Can Go Further Back Into The Self-esteem Movement, And Dr. Spock, And The 'everybody Gets A Ribbon At The Track Meet' Sort Of Thing, Which Preceded The Internet - And Then You Drop The Internet Into The Middle Of This, And We've All Gone Haywire.

What Makes Spinal-cord Injuries As Devastating As They Are Is That Everything About Them Plays Out In Absolutes: They Are Instantaneous, Utterly Disabling And Horribly Permanent.

Toxins Love To Get You While You're Young. Lead, Mercury, Secondhand Smoke And Sundry Other Environmental Nasties Do A Lot More Damage When Tissue Is Immature, Vulnerable And Growing Than When It's Mature And Comparatively Fixed.

We Are All Born With An Innate Understanding Of Interpersonal Equity - The Idea That If You Lend Me Your Rake Today, I'll Respond In Kind When You Come To Borrow My Shovel Tomorrow. Or Nearly All Of Us Are Born With That. Psychopaths Aren't.

Introverts Listen Better, They Assess Risks More Carefully, They Can Be Wiser Managers. It's Not For Nothing That The Silicon Valley Billionaires Are So Often The Retiring Types.

Every Batch Of Sperm Represents An Opportunity For Genetic Typos - Called De Novo Mutations - To Be Passed On. A 20-year-old Man And Woman Will Each Pass On About 20 De Novo Mutations To A Baby They Conceive. By The Time The Couple Is 40, A Woman's Total Has Remained At 20, While A Man's Has Jumped To 65 - And It Keeps Climbing From There.

Members Of Royal Families Are Born Into A World Of Indulgence And Entitlement, And The Princelings Who Grow Up That Way May Never Have To Develop The Emotional Musculature That Will Allow Them To Show Self-restraint.

It's Not Mere Extremism That Makes Folks At The Fringes So Troubling; It's Extremism Wedded To False Beliefs. Humans Have Long Been Dupes, Easily Gulled By Rumors And Flat-out Lies.

In Both Children And Adults, There Can Be A Hard-to-deny Link Between A Robust Sense Of Hope And Either Work Productivity Or Academic Achievement.

Since Narcissism Is Fueled By A Greater Need To Be Admired Than To Be Liked, Psychologists Might Use That Fact As A Therapeutic Lever - Stressing To Patients That Being Known As A Narcissist Will Actually Cause Them To Lose The Respect And Social Status They Crave.

Older Siblings Get More Total-immersion Mentoring With Their Parents Before Younger Siblings Come Along. As A Result, They Get An Iq And Linguistic Advantage Because They Are The Exclusive Focus Of Their Parents' Attention.