Susan Cain (Susan Horowitz Cain) Quotes

Men are more likely to be introverted than women are, but it's really very slight. But the real difference I think is in how it plays out, how it relates to cultural stereotypes.

Susan Cain

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• Stereotypes
• Introvert

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• The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
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• I have an appetite to always learn.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Always
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• I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

  

  Barry Zito
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• While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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• The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
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• I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

  

  Garth Brooks
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• It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.

  

  J. D. Vance
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• I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Up
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• At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
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• Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
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• There came one who spoke of the shame of Jerusalem And the holy places defiled; Peter the Hermit, scourging with words. And among his hearers were a few good men, Many who were evil, And most who were neither, Like all men in all places.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Men
  • Words

• I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Bad
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• Saw your face, My hand you took Just like in a story book, And you got me Yeah, you‘ve got me

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• The temptation is to think that Vicente Fox, who heads a country 46% of whose people would like to live in the United States, is but another failed Third World visionary prattling on for the benefit of globalists who have been beavering away on their impossible dream for generations...

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• 'I've lost a day!'-the prince who nobly cried,Had been an emperor without his crown.

  

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• It’s easy to say that if you were there you would have refused, that you would rather die than participate in the slaughter, but it all looks very different when it’s real, when the moment comes to choose.

  

  Ann Leckie
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• I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don’t like. No other criterion exists for me.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
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• I think because I worked really hard before I had any kind of success it kept me grounded. You just don't know how long that success is gonna be there.

  

  Butch Vig Garbage
  • Success
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• John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Think
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• We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• Men are more likely to be introverted than women are, but it's really very slight. But the real difference I think is in how it plays out, how it relates to cultural stereotypes.

  

  Susan Cain
  • Men
  • Stereotypes
  • Introvert