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.
Quotes to Explore
-
The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
-
I have an appetite to always learn.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
-
Saw your face, My hand you took Just like in a story book, And you got me Yeah, you‘ve got me
-
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...
-
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.
-
'I've lost a day!'-the prince who nobly cried,Had been an emperor without his crown.
-
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.
-
I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don’t like. No other criterion exists for me.
-
I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?
-
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
-
The men and women I work with in law enforcement deal with the consequences of the Democrats' selfish policies to encourage reliance on government, dependency instead of independence, and victimhood instead of the promise of earning your way to financial security.
-
DIRECTIONS FOR USING: For THINKING:-Wind the Clockwork Man under his left arm, (marked No. 1). For SPEAKING:-Wind the Clockwork Man under his right arm, (marked No. 2). For WALKING and ACTION:-Wind Clockwork Man in the middle of his back, (marked No. 3). N. B.-This Mechanism is guaranteed to work perfectly for a thousand years.
-
I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home.
-
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.
