"Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world."

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"Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world."

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Being, Opponents

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Being, Benefits, Duty, World

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Being, Pleasure

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Being, Giving, Man, World

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Being, Dignity, May, Water

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Being, Nothing

"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Being, Action, Inspirational, Truth, Life

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Being, Man, Woman

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Being, Earth, Profession

"I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"Academic success depends on research and publications."

Success, Research

"What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?"

History, Morality, People, Evil

"I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977."

Research, Shyness

"Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic."

Behavior,

"What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people."

Technology, Time, People, Revolution

"I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?"

People, Act, Dumb, Evil

"The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces."

Evil,

"Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented."

Time, People, Behavior, Being

"Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world."

Being, Careers, World

"The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual."

Psychology, Shyness