"At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people."

-- Gail Godwin

#Self Quotes #People Quotes

“I was raised in Catholic school where we were given a lot of heavy literature and a dense, weighty lyric wasn't strange to me. I didn't need everything to be light and simple for me to see the beauty in it.”
“It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.”
“I have to satisfy my audience.”
“What is asserted by a man is an opinion; what is asserted by a woman is opinionated. A woman with ideas and the ability to express them is something of a social embarrassment, like an unhousebroken pet.”

Source : Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”
“Potential does not always ensure success. The greatest players have not always been the most endowed. In athletics, we often hear the phrase, "He has the will to win". I think this is wrong. We can have the greatest will to do well. But unless we have prepared, it is of little use. Really, it should be the "will to prepare". Those who succeed have this will, whether it be in athletics, whether it be in school, whether it be in their chosen vocation, whether it be on a mission, or in almost any other phase of their life.”
“Other people--grandparents, sisters and brothers, the mother's best friend, the next-door neighbor--get to be familiar to the baby. If the mother communicates her trust in these people, the baby will regard them as delicious novelties. Anybody the mother trusts whom the baby sees often enough partakes a bit of the presence of the mother.”

Source : Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Touchstone
“Attractions are proportional to destinies.”

Source : Charles Fourier (1851). “The passions of the human soul and their influence on society and civilization...”, p.12
“I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.”

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