Making Friends Quotes - Page 3

• If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are penalized as being conspicuously better than the peer group. The culture tries to make the child with a gift into a one-sided person, to penalize him at every turn, to cause him trouble in making friends and to create conditions conducive to the development of a neurosis. Neither teachers, the parents of other children, nor the child peers will tolerate a Wunderkind.

  Margaret Mead

  Motivational, Teacher, Children

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• I'm very cagey about making friends, and I rarely do.

  James Herbert

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• That girl had a great way of making friends, and strangers, and anyone else who was around.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Girl, Sex

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• I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.

  Alex Flinn

  People, Shy, Juniors

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• As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Mean, Cynical, Ego

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• Still uncertain as to our identity, we think that what matters in the work world is gaining attention and making friends. And these misconceptions and naïveté are brutally exposed in the light of the real world.

  Robert Greene

  Real, Thinking, What Matters

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.64, Profile Books

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• I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

  Madeleine Albright

  Men, Thinking, Networking

  "Madeleine Albright on Barriers Broken and Barriers that Remain". The Wall Street Journal, www.wsj.com. May 07, 2012.

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• Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
  Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
  Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
  And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
  Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
  Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
  Yet many a man is making friends with death
  Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Life, Rain, Love Is

  "Love Is Not All" l. 1 (1931)

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• I have learned that some people who look fine are more crippled than I am, by fears they can’t explain. Other people are held back by shyness, or anger. In making friends, I see the way some people handicap themselves. I believe there are choices each of us make every single day. We can dwell on our limitations or we can push ourselves past them.

  Cammie McGovern

  Believe, Past, People

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• I love making friends.... it's people I can't stand.

  Linus Torvalds

  Funny, Valentines Day, Witty

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• I think I have to work to write a happy song. I write them carefully; they're simple and they're about when it's fun to walk down the street. You know? Because that's the best thing about when you're happy. It's just one little thing that makes you happy, and you're making friends. The kind of thing I can do is capture this moment.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Song, Fun, Writing

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• An open mind is the secret in
  making friends.

  Seungri

  Secret, Mind, Open Mind

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• Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

  George Weinberg

  Friends, Fighting, Gay

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• Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor.

  Jeffrey Klein

  Friends, Technology, Doors

  "As the World Turns" by Jeffrey Klein, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1998.

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• Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble making friends. And so reading and writing allowed me to have friends and to have an active imaginary life that really sort of kept me sane.

  Roxane Gay

  Lonely, Children, Reading

  "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.

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• I feel more meditative when I don't have a home. I like being put into a new place and making friends with people from a different culture, trying to find the lines of communication. It's a lot of reflection of myself and seeing new scenery.

  Le1f

  Communication, Home, Reflection

  "Le1f’s Riot Movement". Interview with Shayne Oliver, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 9, 2015.

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• I won't lie to you and make you believe what's evil, is making love, and making friends, and meeting God your own way... the RIGHT way.

  Phil Anselmo

  Lying, Believe, Evil

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• If hope is just a mere wish, if it is just like making friends with fantasy, then consciousness will not respond to it. But if it is something significant, like a vision that is trying to blossom inside the heart of an individual, then consciousness will be elevated.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Vision, Trying

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• It was probably one of the things that gave me a sense of possibility and allowed for me to see beyond the small community that I existed within. You know, I was making friends with young Soviet kids. this is during perestroika. You know, there's bread lines and vodka lines. The entire social structure of what was then the Soviet Union was radically different from what we know today.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Kids, Community, Unions

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

  Robert M. Gates

  War, Successful, College

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• For me making friends with locals is hard, mostly because my lack of Vietnamese language skills and being retired I have limited access to locals in the work place. Though for me it is hard meeting expats as well, as most expats work here and make friends through their jobs.

  Doug Rice

  Jobs, Skills, Language

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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• Nobody's cooler than my two girls. They just seem to take whatever comes with, you know - happiness and - steadiness. And they're loving school. They're making friends... and - they've already joined some clubs. And Sasha, you know - I think maybe to endear - myself to her, she - she decided she wanted to join a basketball team. So - what more could I want?

  Barack Obama

  Basketball, Girl, Team

  "As if nothing had changed in our nation since last February, an Army general, a colour guard and military jets introduce the Superbowl" by Daniel Nasaw, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2009.

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• I acknowledge my beauty and my flaws, I do my best to keep it one hundred with the woman in the mirror so making friends is actually easy.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Mirrors, Flaws, Easy

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• In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.

  Thomas Harris

  People, Enemy, Blind

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.301, Penguin

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• Kids can make fun of you for having the wrong shoelaces: that's just kids. But I don't think I had any trouble making friends.

  Mark Ronson

  Fun, Kids, Thinking

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