When the excessively shy force themselves to be forward, they are frequently surprisingly unsubtle and overdirect and even rude: t...hey have entered an extreme region beyond their normal personality, an area of social crime where gradations don't count; unavailable to them are the instincts and taboos that booming extroverts, who know the territory of self-advancement far better, can rely on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Beauty consists of an eternal, invariable element, whose quantity is excessively difficult to determine, and of a relative, circum...stantial element, which will be, if you like, by turns or all together, the era, its fashion, its morals, its passions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The child to be concerned about is the one who is actively unhappy, [in school].... In the long run, a child's emotional developme...nt has a far greater impact on his life than his school performance or the curriculum's richness, so it is wise to do everything possible to change a situation in which a child is suffering excessively.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before... he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have ...minded beyond reason the opinions of others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »