Brené Brown Quotes

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Brené Brown

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• 'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Challenge
  • Envy
  • Smooth

• I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Process
  • Search

• I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Want
  • You

• A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Good
  • Man
  • Advice

• What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Think
  • Single
  • Day

• For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Important
  • Love
  • She

• Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Life
  • Different
  • Nature

• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • She
  • Look
  • Creation

• My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • School
  • Teacher
  • Childhood

• We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Perfect
  • Marriage
  • Broken

• I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Big
  • Ups And Downs
  • Moody

• There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Good
  • Mom
  • Young

• Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Organization
  • Ants

• I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Time
  • Different
  • Man

• I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Think
  • Change
  • Ever

• I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Women
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree of gravity.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Funny
  • Sweet

• It's really fun at night, because I can see the baby kicking. I can feel the knee or the foot. The baby is starting to get heavy, and it's a really incredible feeling. I'm so grateful I get to experience this.

  

  Emily Procter
  • Experience
  • Fun
  • Night

• I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

  

  James Boswell
  • Time
  • May

• For me, I've always found people who stand up and spritz themselves all over their clothes very odd. I'm a big bath addict, and I get up in the morning, and I have a big bath. But when I get out, and I'm still hot but fresh out of the bath, that's when I apply scent. I just have it on my bare skin; I never apply it to my clothes.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • People
  • Up
  • Morning

• He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

  

  Pierre Corneille

• When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

  

  Brené Brown
  • People
  • Stop
  • Attention