Character Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

I think I'm a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.

— Helen Hunt

I think you should be proud of not being worse than just deeply introverted and socially maladjusted.

— Terry Pratchett

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

— Gary Snyder

The good thing about being shy though as a child is that you become very observant because you're not really actively participating. You're sitting…

— Rebel Wilson

“Happiness is always on the other side of being teachable.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Learn to look up now and then, just in case a piano is falling from overhead.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Get out of the office. Roam the frontline. Be observant. Hold your people accountable for creating the new narrative, a new story, in which…

— Michael J. Silverstein

I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger out, and…

— Jan Brett

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to…

— Dick Schaap

When I was at school, one of my teachers had two statements hanging from the board all year: 'Be observant' and 'Be empathetic.'

— Marne Levine

My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

A writer is always observant, of course... You can take the kernel of something - part of it - and use it in a…

— Carol Higgins Clark