Brené Brown Quotes

We're hardwired for connection. There's no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we're trying to hot-wire it.

Brené Brown

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• I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Trying
  • Want

• I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Power
  • Strong
  • Connection

• Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Trying
  • Big
  • Well

• I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Trying
  • I Can
  • Skills

• When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• When I'm writing, I'm just in it and trying to figure out what seems best.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Best

• As far as the Congress is concerned, we condemn any attempts to oppress the Dalits in strongest terms. If there are parties trying to fan the OBC-Dalit divide in Tamil Nadu, we need to collectively condemn them.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Trying
  • Need
  • Far

• I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Know

• Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.

  

  Usher
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Work
  • Live
  • Trying

• My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Perception

• Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Looking

• I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going on - people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don't have those issues.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Trying
  • Relax

• You shouldn't talk about yourself all the time - most of us aren't for sale. Our books are. Talk about them. It's not a question of whether or not you're fascinating on a personal level - it's that your trivia and trials might not have any connection to the tone, tenor and sense of your books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • Question
  • Yourself

• My whole approach is very much about using the locations as a world, trying to find the beauty in the time of day we shoot or the ugliness of it, in cases.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Time
  • World
  • Trying

• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Guy

• Every time I step onto the field, whether people like it or not, I'm not trying to play dirty - I'm just playing tough.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I love that people are still obsessively trying to understand and decode 'The Shining.' People want to find meaning in things that seemingly don't have meaning on the surface.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • People
  • Trying

• I'm just trying to normalize my life and get ready for the last 20 years or whatever I've got. It's a lot to take care of.

  

  John Sandford
  • Life
  • Trying

• Carrying a movie is both a great privilege, it's a great opportunity, but it can be a great pressure, and sometimes that can make people behave very oddly.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • People
  • Great
  • Movie

• Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets.

  

  Russell Baker
  • School
  • Rich
  • Dangerous

• We're hardwired for connection. There's no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we're trying to hot-wire it.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Trying
  • Connection