Susan Cain (Susan Horowitz Cain) Quotes

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

Susan Cain

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• Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Heart
  • Inspiration
  • Write

• I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Democracy
  • Influence
  • Stand

• Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Live
  • Change

• You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Good
  • Great

• What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Success
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• Life is priceless even to an ant.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • Life
  • Priceless
  • Ant

• All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid, patient, practical common-sense; a nation as Napoleon said, of "shopkeepers", has produced more adventurers, explorers and poets than probably any other in history.

  

  Arthur Bryant
  • People
  • May
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• I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Control
  • Individuality
  • Not Afraid

• The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Consumers
  • Adopting

• The Spirit of God is jealous over us; He doesn't want superficial fellowship, but genuine intimacy.

  

  John Bevere
  • Spirit
  • Intimacy
  • Jealous

• What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.

  

  Epictetus
  • Things
  • Opinions
  • Disturbs

• All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Actions
  • Man's
  • Impulses

• The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Die
  • All Things
  • Grasp

• You cannot become Happy, You can only Be Happy.

  

  Adi Da
  • Happy
  • Become
  • Can Be

• Since I've grown up I really wanted to be able to create something different. In Persian music, opposite, again, to classical music, that the instrument developed and evolved over, like, hundreds of years, our instrument all remained the same.

  

  Hafez Nazeri
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Conflict
  • Opposites
  • All Things

• Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

  

  Susan Cain
  • Opposites
  • Temperament
  • Attract