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Brene Brown Quotes

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it's a shield.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: November 18, 1965

Topics

Growth Best Achievement Healthy Same

Social Security is not broke, and Social Security does not need to be privatized.

Security Need Social Security Social

I wanted to be in museums. I don't do things to be small.

Small Museums Things Wanted

I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.

John Perry Barlow

Love Thought Lady Three Sight First

When I say there should not be a BET channel or a Black History Month, I'm saying we deserve more. I just hope people understand that I'm not judging; I'm coming from experience.

Hope History Experience People Black

I love musical comedy; I love comedy in general, and I have varied taste in terms of books, film, theatre, and culture.

Love Culture Theatre Comedy Taste

I really love over-the-knee boots. I think they're super sexy and they're fun. And they're also very strong and empowering.

Love Fun Strong Think Sexy Boots

Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose.

Joyce Carol Oates

Curious Better Speech Roaming Been

I remember walking into the editing room when I was a junior in college, and I watched the guy make cuts, and I didn't know what the hell was going on. He was just putting these shots together and telling the story, and it was amazing.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Together College Amazing Story Hell

At one point, in one of the kitchens where I worked, I was the only American pastry cook. They treated me poorly. 'You're stupid. You're American. You don't get it.' They'd speak French all day. At one point, my boss said to me, 'You learn French or get out right away.'

Day Boss Me Stupid Speak Learn

I'm not the kind of guy to talk about angels: I'm a very pragmatic kind of guy.

Kind Angels Talk Guy Pragmatic Very

Try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, 'Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,' and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.

Tree Blue Yellow Color Pink Think

If you can write someone off as a bad person, then it's easier, but when someone is also great and noble and generous and kind and funny and contradictory, it gets harder.

Funny Great Someone You Bad Person

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