Outsiders Quotes - Page 7

• If an outsider perceives 'something wrong' with a core scientific model, the humble and justified response of that curious outsider should be to ask 'what mistake am I making?' before assuming 100% of the experts are wrong.

  David Brin

  Mistake, Humble, Experts

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• Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of shorter periods such as moments, days, or years? And to what extent are virtue and happiness linked?

  Sissela Bok

  Happiness, Thinking, Years

  Sissela Bok (2010). “Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science”, p.38, Yale University Press

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• In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

  Desmond Tutu

  Family, Enemy

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu". Interview with Dr. Frank Lipman, www.bewell.com. April 14, 2009.

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• [Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.

  Abraham Maslow

  Children, Science, Thinking

  "New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution". Book by Colin Wilson, November 1960.

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• Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Compassion, Community, Enemy

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• In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Sunset, Ironic, Style

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere”, p.180, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Outsiders develop humor as a defense; why do you think most comedians are gay or Jewish?

  Paul Lynde

  Gay, Thinking, Comedian

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• But in a crunch, when all our asses are in the sling, it looks like it is easier to deal with the samenesses. When we deal with sameness only, we develop weapons that we use against each other when the differences become apparent. And we wipe each other out - Black men and women can wipe each other out - far more effectively than outsiders do.

  Audre Lorde

  Men, Differences, Black

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• The only advice I can give you… is to examine who you are… Figure out what’s important to you. Know yourselves. Know what’s in your heart. Don’t be swayed by fear or history or the opinions of outsiders. Find your own truth. It will lead you to the things you love.

  J-Ax

  Heart, Giving, Advice

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• Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

  Diane Abbott

  Looks, Village, London

  "Politicians interview pundits: Diane Abbott and Nick Robinson". Interview with Nick Robinson, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2009.

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• I always felt like something of an outsider. But I identified with people up on the screen. That made me feel like I wanted to be up on the screen too. I felt like eventually I would get there.

  Luke Perry

  People, Made, Feels

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The one who tried too hard, the outsider, the oddball. Yeah, that was me.

  Idina Menzel

  Oddballs, Yeah, Hard

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• We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.

  J. William Fulbright

  Mean, Trying, Tasks

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.32, Random House

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• marriage is an extraordinary thing - and I doubt if any outsider - even a child of the marriage - has the right to judge.

  Agatha Christie

  Children, Judging, Doubt

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (Poirot)”, p.30, HarperCollins UK

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• I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Persons

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• Such is the nature of an expatriate life. Stripped of romance, perhaps that's what being an expat is all about: a sense of not wholly belonging. [...] The insider-outsider dichotomy gives life a degree of tension. Not of a needling, negative variety but rather a keep-on-your-toes sort of tension that can plunge or peak with sudden rushes of love or anger. Learning to recognise and interpret cultural behaviour is a vital step forward for expats anywhere, but it doesn't mean that you grow to appreciate all the differences.

  Sarah Turnbull

  Mean, Differences, Appreciate

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• The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

  Wes Anderson

  Obsession, Obsessed, Subjects

  "Royal leanings". Interview with Richard Matthews, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 13, 2002.

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• One reason (among many) that women may well take over the world of "virtual enterprises" is that they seem to have a greater instinct for networking. And the unfettered-by-machismo males who have taken to networking will do better than those who shun it as "sissy stuff." But truth is, it has always been the age of "networkers"; and in an era where organizations depend more and more on tenuously connected outsiders to get the job done, it will only become so.

  Tom Peters

  Jobs, Taken, Power

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.54, Vintage

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• The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Jesus, Self

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• ... love is banality to all outsiders.

  Mae West

  Love Is, Banality

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Real, America, Littles

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• Nerds are running the world. Andrew Garfield made a movie [called “The Social Network”] about it. Nerds are no longer pariahs and knowing how to write computer code is longer a [mocked] quality. What was important in those early comics was this notion that Peter Parker is an outsider and how we define that in a contemporary context. That, I think, was one of the challenges for us — getting Peter Parker’s outsider status to be current.

  Marc Webb

  Running, Writing, Thinking

  "‘Spider-Man’ director Marc Webb feels a ‘responsiblity to reinvent’ the hero". Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. July 18, 2011.

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• We as outsiders can't differentiate between Sunni and Shi'ah, but leave it to them and they'll get over the difficulty by some kind of hanky panky, just as the Turks did, and for the present it's the only way of getting over it. I don't for a moment doubt that the final authority must be in the hands of the Sunnis, in spite of their numerical inferiority; otherwise you will have a mujtahid-run, theocratic state, which is the very devil.

  Gertrude Bell

  Running, Hands, Doubt

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• Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this: Every group we belong to - by gender, sex, race, religion, age - is an in-group, surrounded by an immense out-group, living next door and all over the world, who will be alive as far into the future as humanity has a future. That out-group is called other people. It is for them that we write.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Sex, Lying, Writing

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.197, Shambhala Publications

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• He was an outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.

  Joan Didion

  Ability, Manipulate

  Joan Didion (1977). “A Book of Common Prayer”

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