Outsiders Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

  Monica Ali

  Trying, Needs, Standing Out

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• In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Thinking, Differences

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• Only man has become an outsider - and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Effort, Celebration

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• There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been to Alaska, yet they claim to know what's best for us.

  Lisa Murkowski

  Alaska, People, Trying

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• Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

  Alice Hoffman

  Individuality, Common, One Thing

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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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• 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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• Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending on the angle and distance of the narrator, they exert different effects. The best are those in which the speaker never poses as an objective outsider. (...) Other stories are damaged by the urge to distance the narrator.

  Yiyun Li

  Football, Distance, Narrators

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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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• 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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• I've always been interested in the outsider.

  Charles de Lint

  Interview with M.M. Hall, www.publishersweekly.com. October 22, 2001.

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• The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Ideas, Ignorant

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• I am not looking to be understood or liked. Like me or not, I don't care. I am an outsider, that is the way I was brought up.

  Jimmy Connors

  Care, Way, Like Me Or Not

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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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• I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen.

  Aziz Ansari

  Cutting, Gentleman, Band

  "Questions for Aziz Ansari" by Jessica Grose, www.slate.com. August 12, 2011.

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• It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.

  Max Weber

  Men, Numbers, Facts

  Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.99, Routledge

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• It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.

  Katarina Witt

  Years, Ice, Profession

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• Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

  Chris Crutcher

  Mean, Eye, School

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• It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.

  Ally Carter

  Real, Believe, Book

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• Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.

  Ally Carter

  Teenage, Reading, Writing

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