Susan Cain (Susan Horowitz Cain) Quotes
Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.
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Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there are long term yields, there are short term yields, there is credit growth.
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If you're gonna live, then live it up.
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How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is no accident that, in a tranquil reverie, we often follow the slope which returns us to our childhood solitudes.
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All you need to do is know who you are.
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There is nothing more pleasing to God, than to see a soul who patiently and serenely bears whatever crosses it is sent; this is how love is made, by putting lover and loved one on the same level. . . A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised and humiliated.
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What Reagan ushered in was a skepticism toward government solutions to every problem. I don't think that has changed
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I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.
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I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.
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I don't walk around with a cowboy hat. I did get a tattoo that says 'cowboy' that's a bit of an over-compensation, probably.
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Friday and Saturday nights have a funny way of revealing what we really believe on Sunday mornings.
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O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.
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Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves toward the imagination: it becomes a mental construct, a model of a possible way of interpreting experience. The further it goes in this direction, the more it tends to speak the language of mathematics, which is really one of the languages of the imagination, along with literature and music. Art, on the other hand, begins with the world we construct, not with the world we see. It starts with the imagination, and then works toward ordinary experience.
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A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.
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Never let shyness conquer your mind.
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People always say, 'You look like Iggy Pop.'
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Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.
