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" If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, 'No.' "

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" A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it's actually a being. 'Harry Potter''s a good example. So Harry's the hero, right. But he's tainted with evil. There's a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It's well balanced. "

Jordan Peterson

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Hero

" The right-wingers don't want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick. "

" It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure. "

" I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses. "

" Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved. "

" We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out. "

" If you learn a martial art, you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously, you learn to control it. "

" Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open. "

Jordan Peterson

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Open

" That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together. "

" You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another. "

" It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp. "

" I suppose for a very long time I've been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings. "

" Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell. "

" All things considered, there's nobody better for children than parents. "

" The most propagandistic element of 'Frozen' was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending. "

" The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences. "

" You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to. "

" You can't just slander someone, defame them, lie about them. You can't incite people to crime. There's all sorts of reasonable restrictions on free speech that are already codified in the British common-law system. "

" If you're talking to a man who wouldn't fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you're talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect. "

" The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can. "

" Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed. "

" No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life. "

" I like working-class people, generally speaking. "

Jordan Peterson

Speaking

People

" It's very hard to find your own words - and you don't actually exist until you have your own words. "

" There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear. "

" Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering. "

" If you're not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you're going to be punished for them, then what's your motivation to continue? "

" It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city. "

" You can't go backward in life. "

" Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption. "