Shoshana Zuboff Quotes

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

The ruling ethos of Seattle is forlorn apology for our animal impulses.

I grew up in Georgia, and my mom would tell me how to perform and act. So I learned to repress a lot of myself so that other people would feel comfortable.

Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy.

It's not easy not to play.

There is a fine line between sensuousness and vulgarity. I will not cross that line.

I can't resist temptation of any kind.

Zimbabweans, I've come to believe, we are very passive-aggressive people. We don't like conflict; we don't like confrontation, so we find all sorts of ways of avoiding that conflict and confrontation. We are not allowed to talk about bad things that go on in families.

I don't want to show my emotions in public.

I am not bold, lewd, or crude.

My experience is that aggression is a universal trait in human beings - girls feel it in any sort of environment, same-sex or co-ed.

I was definitely the kid who was the chicken, who didn't want to say the cuss words.

If I am playing the game freely, and those opportunities come up to cross the line, then I get enjoy that a lot. But when I try to force things, I am not playing my best footy.

I'm mostly a quiet person by nature and don't like letting my emotions come out on the field.

I keep the tantrums to a minimum because people don't want to see that.

Humans, the supremely social mammals, are ethical and intellectual sponges. We unconsciously absorb, for good or ill, the influences that surround us.

I can't control what everyone else does, I can't control anybody else's behavior, but I can control mine.

Those who know me well know that I don't wear my emotions on my sleeve like other people do. That's just the way I was raised.

In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle.

Even as a boy, my dad always told me, 'Don't show emotion.' If I banged my cue, he would give me a row and say, 'Stop that.' Don't show any petulance. It was developed, certainly, but I think you have got to have it in you.

Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside you that you didn’t dare let them escape in case they blew you wide open? Have you ever been so angry that you couldn’t look in the mirror for fear of finding the face of evil glaring back at you?

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man

Sure you have feelings and you get emotional and angry but I kept everything inside because I think I still had that thought in my mind - I didn't want to get suspended again

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.