#socially

I met Mr. Hoover socially. I never talked to him about anything connected with his work. We just met him. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#anything #connected #him #his #hoover

One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#because #been #complete #embarrassment #everybody

You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing. ↗

— Timothy West

#down #frightening #get #hunt #out

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life. ↗

— Alicia Witt

#advanced #awkward #being #creative #creative life

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit. ↗

— Judith Wright

#addictions #alluring #aspect #attain #cases

I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially interactive loner you ever met. The thing is, I am fascinated by people's stories and I'm very talkative and can't ever say no to anything or anyone, so I tend to over-socialize, to give away too much of my time to the many people I adore. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#am #anyone #anything #away #ever

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#assume #boasting #egotism #form #intolerance

The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate. ↗

— Tobe Hooper

#influences #kind #life #my life #politically

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing. ↗

— Carol Gilligan

#constructed #deeply #determined #differences #disturbing

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. ↗

— Richard Carlson

#form #illness #mental #mental illness #more