The question

What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

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Peter Thiel, to job candidates, Zero to One, chapter 1, 2014

Peter Thiel, Zero to One, chapter 1, where it is introduced as his job-interview question. Thiel supplies his own standard: a good answer takes the form "most people believe x, but the truth is the opposite of x."

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I think it is an approach that is very ill suited to this particular problem. This whole issue of presenting it as a moral issue to my mind that actually is a capitulation to a kind of neo-liberal ideology which tries to reduce all collective action to cases of individual choices.
Recorded Nitin Sethi, Business Standard, 20 July 2016 source ↗
Billie Piper English actress and former singer
I felt very unhinged in my early 30s and kind of mentally not well. There was something very, very sobering about that time and letting go of people that weren’t very healthy for me. Unfortunately, a lot of that has been in relation to men, I suppose.
Recorded N/A, N/A, Vogue, 15 March 2024 source ↗
Pete Rozelle Commissioner of the National Football League, 1960–1989
You can’t make decisions based upon whether it will be popular or not. You have to make decisions based on whether they’re right.
Recorded Rancho Santa Fe, California, Academy of Achievement, 15 May 1991 source ↗
Ernst Mayr Naturalist and evolutionary biologist
Primarily to show, and you will think that this doesn't need showing, but lots of people would disagree with you. To show that biology is an autonomous science and should not be mixed up with physics. That's my message.
Recorded Claudio Angelo, Scientific American interview, 6 July 2004 source ↗

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My problem is that I'm too relaxed, too laidback. Most of the time I feel like a flat tire; totally unmotivated, positively lifeless. I can fall asleep at any time during the day. It takes a lot to get me stimulated, and I'm an excessively sensitive person, which complicates things. I can be totally at ease one minute, and then, for no reason whatsoever, I get restless and fidgety; doesn't seem to be any middle ground.
Recorded Jeff Slate, The Official Bob Dylan Site, 19 December 2022 source ↗

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