Warren Farrell Quotes

Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman.

Warren Farrell

• Men
• Fear
• Expectation
• Superman

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• I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Great
  • Success
  • Road

• I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Long
  • Think

• This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • People
  • Fun
  • Game

• Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Values
  • Emotions
  • Step

• Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Voice
  • Going
  • Ice

• Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Hope
  • Conviction
  • Turn

• But I think we need the international market.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Think
  • Need
  • I Think

• While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • World
  • Great
  • Interesting

• I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in the editing. I do a lot of takes, but it's because I'm looking for something.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Movies
  • Looking
  • Editing

• He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • History
  • Past
  • Study

• If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Grow
  • Others
  • Invest

• I love action movies.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Love
  • Action
  • Movies

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Fight

• I could actually be somebody that, if you showed me new gun-control legislation could help solve this problem, I might actually be able to support something like that.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Help
  • Control
  • Support

• We're very good at talking about the individual in American politics and excellent at talking about the government. But we have little ability to even acknowledge everything that exists in the middle, and given how influential politics is on every other part of our life, I think that failure of discourse is pretty corrosive to our overall culture.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Life
  • Good
  • American

• I'm more comfortable performing in front of 50,000 people than five people - it's easier. When there's that many people, I feel like I'm alone. When I perform in front of only a few people, it's scary.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Alone
  • Feel

• Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • May
  • Road
  • English

• It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think we should have. But I think we should slowly build it in and not just go 'Bam!' with three weeks over the same course and same length of time as the men's.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity...will respect the less important and arbitrary ones... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

  

  Cesare Beccaria
  • Men
  • Important
  • Humanity

• The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • History
  • Past

• I love shutting my front door and being at home with just my dog and me. That's when I'm happiest.

  

  Lucy Davis
  • Home
  • Dog
  • Door

• It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Time
  • Long
  • Fails

• Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Expectation