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“We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.”

Individual Social Understanding Environment Fit Seeking Welfare

Author:Robert E. Ornstein

“Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.”

Social Fit Musical Surrender Poetic Magnificent Remorse Prestige

Author:Laura Riding

“I am in total opposition to any institutional power. I favor a world of neighborhoods in which all social organization is voluntary and the ways of life are established in small, consenting groups. These groups could cooperate with other groups as they saw fit. But all cooperation would be on a voluntary basis. As the French anarchist Proudhon said. “Liberty [is] not the daughter but the Mother of Order.”

World Way Said Would Be Mother Order Social Liberty Saws Groups Fit Daughter Organization Bases Favors Opposition Neighborhood Cooperation Anarchist Social Organization

Author:Karl Hess

“For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.”

“Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules.”

Men Doe Fall Games Language Nations Social Fit Determine Belonging Arrangements Entering Social Life Impervious

Author:Alain Finkielkraut

“If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart. But you can be fun and fit and social and be really smart. And the smarter you are, the more capable you'll be to handle whatever challenges come up in life.”

Ifs Believe Beautiful Fun Social Challenges Fit Capable Smart Come Up Handle Smarter Stem Being Smart Really Smart Beautiful You You Re Beautiful

Author:Danica McKellar

“at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.”

Moments Certain Social Fire Fit Leaving Proceeding Sociability

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

“All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real.”

Ideas Real Seems Courses Social Fiction Media Identity Fit Aspect Science Fiction Social Media Contemporary Wonderland Contemporary Life

Author:Vijay Seshadri

“[Silvio] Gesell's chiefwork is written in cool and scientific terms, although it is run through by a more passionate and charged devotion to social justice than many think fit for a scholar. I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell then from that of Marx.”

Thinking Believe Running Spirit I Believe Social Term Justice Written Fit Social Justice Investing Passionate Devotion Scholar

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don't fit the business paradigm.”

Ideas Problem Social Simple Deals Needed Fit India Entrepreneur Paradigm Simple Ideas

Author:Bill Drayton

“Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or whether it was in a social situation. And with kids, you just can't. The rule is you can't really do that because they dictate and they change so much so you just have to go with the flow more and be present and not have big expectations and be amused all the time.”

World Hard Bigs Kids Social Situation Baby Fit Expectations Understood Flow Surroundings Amused

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“The designer [...] has a passion for doing something that fits somebody's needs, but that is not just a simple fix. The designer has a dream that goes beyond what exists, rather than fixing what exists. [...] The designer wants to create a solution that fits in a deeper situational or social sense.”

Want Needs Dream Passion Social Simple Design Fit Solutions Deeper Designer Fixing

Author:David E. Kelley

“If you are really working on something intensely, your social skills fall away and you are not fit to be brought out into public.”

Ifs Fall Social Fit Skills Social Skills

Author:Jay Cassidy

“I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'”

World Firsts Humans Kind Stories Individual Social Fiction Reader Fit Details Human Life Internals Affected Jane Smiley

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.”

World Hard Social Situation Baby Fit Understood Surroundings

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“Every novel deals with social problems. It can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. So the author has to offer an analysis of how the group and the protagonist fit. Otherwise, the reader will just say, "This makes no sense," and will put it away.”

Helping Problem Social Deals Novel Groups Reader Fit Offers Conflict Analysis Protagonists Social Problems

Author:Jane Smiley

“When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you're perpetually an outsider, it gives you a perspective that might have a little more objectivity than people who really feel connected to their social environment in which they grow up.”

People Ifs Giving Feels Littles Might Wanted Social Grows Growing Up Environment Growing Perspective Fit Connected Outsiders Objectivity Social Environment

Author:Moby

“People when they're growing up they just want to fit in, there are a lot of social pressures on young people today to kind of have it all figured out and know what they want to do, know who they are straight away and I've always tried to embrace that sense of pressure, but I've got people around me that do as well.”

People Knows Want Wells Kind Today Young Social Growing Up Growing Fit Pressure Embrace Social Pressure

Author:Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi

“I just wanted to fit in, so probably early on I knew, but it was... social life was such a distant part of my existence when I was in school that I didn't even think about it too much.”

Thinking Wanted School Social Existence Too Much Fit Social Life

Author:John Amaechi

“I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.”

People Ifs I Can Ideas Social Fit East No Idea Wealthy Coast Harvard Elitist East Coast

Author:Tommy Lee Jones

“I've been in real estate for a long time and I always try to stay on the edge. I'm really excited about the partnership with Trulia because it's centered around technology and the various social engagements it lends itself to. This is real estate going forward with a mobile and social application. It fits my profile and perspective.”

Trying Long Real Social Technology Perspective Fit Long Time Edges Various Excited Application Engagement Partnership Estates Mobile Profile

Author:MC Hammer

“People of all ages, but especially young people, require work that as meaning, or social value. Since they're not getting the kind of long-term guarantees of yore, they're willing to job hop to find the right fit.”

People Kind Long Age Jobs Young Values Social Term Willing Fit Long Term Guarantees Hops Social Values

Author:Stewart D. Friedman

“Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.”

Social Fit Who You Are Available Site Networking Website Social Networking Social Networking Sites Networking Sites

Book:You Are Not a Gadget

Source: You Are Not a Gadget

“The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.”

Needs Today Young Strong Social Term Greater Personality Fit Skills Pressure Cooking Marketing Kitchen Plates Chef Delivering Social Skills Physically Fit

Author:Gordon Ramsay

“We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.”

Trying Whole Problem Reality Running Order Social Challenges Economic Fit Program Assumption Running Away Economic Order Problems And Challenges

Author:Ann Richards