Maria Konnikova Quotes

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

Everyone has different layers to who they are.

I think every person is so unique. I think every woman is so unique, every man is so unique, every artist is so unique.

Guess what? Human beings are complex.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

What is unique about humans is their individuality.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

Everyone has something that defines them, whether they're wildly intelligent or whether they have really big feet.

There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.

I'm a lot of things at once. I want my audience to choose the side they like most about me.

No one is any one thing.

Everybody's a complex person. Everybody. Everybody's nuanced.

People are incorrigibly themselves.

It's interesting to see how we are all uniquely different.

You know like it has its own personality, its own character.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

'Divergent' is a story about people who don't fit into a category - that is a big part of the message - but it's also about conformity and forcing people into these simple archetypes. At the end of the day, humans don't exist like that. We're multifaceted.

I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

I don't think any of us like to be reduced to just one label.

I find human beings to be so complex and full of beauty. Creativity is our way to express and challenge and flow. So, all you humans, create and flow! I'll be over here thinking you are beautiful and creepy and freaky and wonderful!

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

Each man's mind has some peculiarity, as well as his face, that distinguishes him from all others…

'Mom' isn't an adjective or a personality; they're not all the same.

Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!

I'm not a person you can figure out in one month. And you can't listen to one song and say, 'That's who he is.'