Susan Cain (Susan Horowitz Cain) Quotes

There is zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

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• When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari, you put premium petrol in the tank, you hit the motorway, and you step on the gas.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Buy
  • Ferrari
  • Premium

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Question
  • Health
  • Healthy

• It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.

  

  Campbell Newman
  • Want
  • Example
  • Tax

• I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Television

• I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Kids
  • Happy
  • Success

• I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Think
  • Best

• The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Work
  • Important
  • Love

• It's important to recognize how special New Orleans is. You play the snare drum or the clarinet in any other city, and you'd be considered a nerd, but here, there's no shame in it, and it's absolutely valued.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Important
  • City
  • Special

• 'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Bad
  • Society
  • Wealth

• There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Yourself

• When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • People
  • Up
  • Meet

• There's no doubt my having been a ballplayer made me feel a special sense of responsibility to Joe Jackson's life.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Doubt

• Anything that is profoundly energy-shifting - like having a child - is fodder for creative thought. So for me, I welcome it and look straight into it as something to learn from.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Energy
  • Thought
  • Child

• A lot of people believe what other people say.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Believe
  • Say

• It is important that a woman’s 'noes' be respected and her 'yeses' be respected. And it is also important when her nonverbal 'yeses' (tongues still touching) conflict with those verbal 'noes' that the man not be put in jail for choosing the 'yes' over the 'no.' He might just be trying to become her fantasy.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Important
  • Trying

• We are removing the most important cultural roadblock to accepting the role of God as creator.

  

  Phillip E. Johnson
  • God
  • Important

• We should take stock of Iran and discuss how we might best pursue the nuclear file over the coming weeks.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Stock
  • Iran
  • Persue

• I am pretty sick with myself! It seemed a pretty good idea at the time. Around the time I turned 30, I started to feel very creative, more creative than I had been before which is good and I like that.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Ideas
  • Feels
  • Sick

• I think nobody can get me out. I've got a pretty good idea of what I want to hit. If I get my pitch, I'm going to get a hack in. And if I don't get you this time, I'll get you next time. I'm not saying I'm better than anybody, but I am saying that nobody is better than me.

  

  Carlos Delgado
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Next

• When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• There is zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

  

  Susan Cain
  • Ideas
  • Correlation
  • Talker