Susan Cain (Susan Horowitz Cain) Quotes

Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.

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• We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Fell

• If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?

  

  F. E. Smith
  • Good
  • God
  • Place

• You just have to work super hard, and if you have a passion, that's the most beautiful thing in life, and you just have to bust out and do it, baby!

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Life
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Music
  • Different
  • Writing

• I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Home
  • Game
  • Attention

• Music means itself.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Music

• My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Parents

• Acting is a youthful profession.

  

  Kirk Douglas

• There is more to the game than hitting it far. There are ways to make birdies other than hitting 350-yard drives. I pride myself on a good short game; I work very hard at it.

  

  Luke Donald
  • Good
  • Work
  • Game

• I had done a couple of auditions for 'Amistad' and didn't feel it was going to go any further - and then the call came about heading to Los Angeles to work with Steven Spielberg. It was surreal: exciting, challenging, overwhelming.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Work
  • Done
  • Couple

• As a little girl I always dreamed of having a cosmetics contract, which was the cherry on top of 'making it' in my opinion.

  

  Paula Patton
  • Girl
  • Opinion

• To me, sound is a crucial component to, really, any moviegoing experience, but particularly with suspense films or thrillers. I think you need the audience to become subtly really attuned to the soundscape in, like, this uncomfortable way.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Experience

• If your life gets off to a rough start, just know this is helping you develop depth of personality and depth of character.

  

  John Bytheway
  • Life
  • Character
  • Personality

• You can't perish because of your own feelings; you have to embrace those things as an actor because it's part of your palette.

  

  Martin Landau

• We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.

  

  John Schlesinger
  • Good
  • Done

• 'Let's go out and buy a statistically average meal from a large multinational restaurant chain. That usually fixes about seventy-five percent of life's problems.'

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Life

• Fellow citizens:The hour to try your souls and to redeem your pledges has arrived.

  

  Charles Stewart Parnell

• Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • World
  • Culture
  • Violence

• Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

  

  William James
  • Opportunity
  • Emotional
  • Habit

• A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Practice
  • Vulgar
  • Mechanick

• In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Black Lives Matter protesters have elevated the idea of inequity in policing as it relates to minority communities.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • Black
  • Forever
  • Wall

• In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity. The distance between you and them can one day become so great that your joyous cry over some new gain could be answered by an universal shriek of horror.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Humanity
  • Distance
  • Discover

• Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.

  

  Susan Cain
  • Humanity
  • Responsible
  • Achievements