"Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people."

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Source : Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.19, Open Road Media

Andre Dubus

#Sports Quotes #School Quotes #Self Quotes

“Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.”
“I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue.”
“Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on.”
“The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness.”

Source : Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
“Tragedy had sent me headlong into reality. All the things I had seen before now looked different, even nature.”
“As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them.”
“With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.”
“Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.”

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