Adolescence Quote by Camille Paglia

There's something very intoxicating about playing someone so volatile and someone who can lose his temper at any second.

— Tom Felton

For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn…

— Ruth Wilson

We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“At the onset of the Culture of Personality, we were urged to develop an extroverted personality for frankly selfish reasons—as a way of outshining…

— Susan Cain

“Hesitancy is the surest destroyer of talent. One cannot be timorous and reticent, one must be original and loud. New metaphors, new rhythms, new…

— Stephen Dobyns

“Since early childhood, their emotions have been conditioned by the tribal premise that one must “belong,” one must be “in,” one must swim with…

— Ayn Rand

Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother's rejection, and with the resultant rents in self-esteem. The Game echoes with disturbingly abusive comments leveled…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“When the first force, social feeling and community expectation, is ignored or affronted, the person concerned will reveal certain aggressive character traits: vanity, ambition,…

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and…

— Arthur Evans

“This is theory’s acute dilemma: that desire expresses itself most fully where only those absorbed in its delights and torments are present, that it…

— Joan Cocks

“People learn to be hostile,disparaging and manipulative because it works for them.these people expect you to react in certain ways to their style,because in…

— Windy dryden

Consciously or unconsciously most of us adhere to what is expected of our role because we realize our social success depends on this. Some…

— Robert Greene