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.
Quotes to Explore
-
We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
-
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.
-
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
-
Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
-
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!
-
If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
-
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.
-
I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
-
Music means itself.
-
Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
-
My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.
-
Acting is a youthful profession.
-
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.
-
Every young girl wants to be a princess. Then, when you find a real-life one, it's very easy to imagine yourself in that role.
-
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.
-
I've stopped questioning things and how things work.
-
As a little girl I always dreamed of having a cosmetics contract, which was the cherry on top of 'making it' in my opinion.
-
It was in a grim room on Eddy Street that I finally opened 'A Moveable Feast.' I read it all overnight. I read it again the next day.
-
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.
-
Although a novel takes place in the larger world, there's always some drive in it that is entirely personal - even if you don't know it while you're doing it.
-
My men and I have decided that our boss, the president of the United States, is as tough as woodpecker lips.
-
The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
-
I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.
-
Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.
