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.

Susan Cain

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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

• 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.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • Life
  • Real
  • Girl

• 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

• 1968 in Paris renewed my options. There was suddenly a desire of inventing new things, and I while I was working as an editor, the assistant editor thought I had a gift, and when he shot his own film, he hired me as his assistant camera, and I trained myself to do the light for him.

  

  Babette Mangolte
  • Light
  • Desire
  • Paris

• Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of body and spirit.... this that I tell you is my message as far as I've got any.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Wife
  • Wisdom

• The positive aspects of modernity are to be acknowledged unreservedly: we are all grateful for the marvellous possibilities that it has opened up for mankind and for the progress in humanity that has been granted to us.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Up
  • Humanity
  • Positive

• Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • Humanity
  • Price

• 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