01c. 1960 ADRight now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others?Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
02c. 1960 ADThe path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
03c. 1960 ADVirtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
04c. 1960 ADThe real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space it's through time.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
05c. 1960 ADIn design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
06c. 1960 ADThe Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
07c. 1960 ADBe bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
08c. 1960 ADEnter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
09c. 1960 ADOur children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
10c. 1960 ADThe millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park to play. So should we be surprised that they learned to leverage technology to build community, tweeting and texting and friending while their elders were still dialing long-distance?Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
11c. 1960 ADFamily dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
12c. 1960 ADThe days of the Pentagon Papers debates seem long past, when a sudden transparency yielded insight into fights over war and peace and freedom and security; the transparency afforded by Twitter and Facebook yields insights that extend no further than a lawmaker's boundless narcissism and a culture's pitiless prurience.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
13c. 1960 ADEmotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
14c. 1960 ADAll our efforts to guard and guide our children may just get in the way of the one thing they need most from us: to be deeply loved yet left alone so they can try a new skill, new slang, new style, new flip-flops. So they can trip a few times, make mistakes, cross them out, try again, with no one keeping score.Nancy Gibbs / quote ↗
