"A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness."

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Nathaniel Branden

#Opposites Quotes #Self Quotes #Bully Quotes

“The world goes on because of those who close their lips when they meet hostility from others.”
“Dedicate the precious days of your lives to the betterment of the world”
“I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can't you can't you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don't write”
“A man gets on a train with his little boy, and gives the conductor only one ticket. 'How old's your kid?' the conductor says, and the father says, 'He's four years old.' 'He looks at least twelve to me,' says the conductor. And the father says, 'Can I help it if he worries?”
“One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.”
“A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.”

Source : David Brin (2009). “The Uplift War”, p.221, Spectra
“I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential nominee. Well, that was back when President Bush was president and vice versa. So this is not a pretty carrying-on at the moment.”

Source : "Justice Scalia's Funeral Mass To Bring Together Unlikely Peers". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.
“Guitar playing is not my strong suit. I cut my finger off, working in an oil field, and it don't work anymore, so I'm limited as to what I can do on the guitar.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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