Attempting Quote by Arca Download Open image “As a kid, I spent a lot of my mental energy hiding who I was and attempting to fit in.” — Arca ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Attempting Attempting Fit Energy Energy Hiding Hiding Hiding Attempting Mental Mental Energy Psychology Who
I had behavioral problems. I didn't always feel like I fit in. Which is somewhat universal. I don't want to imply that I was… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
Truly, from a very early age, I started distancing myself from other kids, not out of willingness, but just out of the nature of… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
I was really hyperactive as a kid and no one knew how or where I got all this energy. — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
I only have so much energy, so something had to go. This is why, at the end of the day, I've preserved my sanity… — Kiri Te Kanawa Copy Share Image
I never fit in as a kid. I always felt that there was something different about me. — Anya Taylor-Joy Copy Share Image
When you're that age - that middle-school age, early high school - you're changing. You're going crazy. So I put all of my energy… — Natalie Prass Copy Share Image
When New Kids became really successful, I got a lot of offers to do parts in movies and TV shows, but I was really… — Donnie Wahlberg Copy Share Image
I was really self conscious as a kid, I felt terrible - like a prisoner in my own body. — Tess Holliday Copy Share Image
Part of what was in the ether all around me growing up, until I was between 19 and 20, was a terrible, debilitating stutter.… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made… — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We try and banish whole inner realms. Sometimes, you have to touch the thing inside you're most afraid of and see what happens when… — Arca Copy Share Image
If you try and kind of focus on hope, but you know what it's like to be in the dark, then hope is more… — Arca Copy Share Image
It struck me at some point that the things I wanted to say had to be wordless. I had to renounce words in order… — Arca Copy Share Image
When I work with other people, I have to try to make their vision happen. With my own, I don't think about it. The… — Arca Copy Share Image
When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that… — Arca Copy Share Image
It's not about living my life as a boy or a girl - but I'm also not trans - it's just that one day,… — Arca Copy Share Image
There has to be an entry point to learn about myself, or an idea I've never tried, because then I can try on a… — Arca Copy Share Image
With 'Lonely Thug,' I constructed a fantasy character who was very masculine and strong and almost threatening, but his demeanor belied some complication. — Arca Copy Share Image
You might be raised as a boy in a very conservative environment and then somehow, at some point, there was a side of me… — Arca Copy Share Image
I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of… — Arca Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
In terms of style, too, I think I've been working with a somewhat limited -- although intentionally limited -- set of tools. So I'm… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Ewan McGregor stars as Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi, again doing a fine Alec Guinness impersonation but otherwise seeming lost and alone in the galaxy as… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
Daphne," he said with controlled gentleness, "what is wrong?" She sat down opposite him and placed a hand on his cheek. "I'm so insensitive,"… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God — William Carey Copy Share Image
I swear you’re a woman. (Devyn) I would respond to that, but I don’t want to distract you while you’re attempting to drive and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
