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Stuart Wilde Author, Speaker
Insecure

"When you are insecure, it turns people off. To spend money, people have to give away a part of their security. When they make the transfer of money to you, they have to feel solid; they have to feel they are getting something that will make them more, because they are paying out and becoming less right now. If you are solid and contained and secure, it helps them feel solid, so they transfer their cash more readily."

People Love Insecure
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Oscar Wilde Writer
Insecure

"The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends."

Civilization Machines Insecure
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Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Psychiatrist
Insecure

"The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a quest for approval from "the good and the great" may turn out to be another agent interfering with his ability to listen in a therapeutically valid fashion. This type of dependence gives rise to the danger that the psychiatrist may consider the changeable man-made standards of the society in which he lives to be eternal values to which he and his patients must conform."

Men Fashion Insecure
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Blake Lively Actress
Insecure

"People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves."

People Gossip Insecure
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Insecure

"I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them."

Self Government Insecure
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Maisie Williams Actress
Insecure

"They’re always like, 'That’s not what happened in the books, so the show’s really bad now.' But really, they just feel insecure because they’re used to knowing what’s coming next."

Book Knowing Insecure
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Susan Cain Author, Speaker
Insecure

"Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure."

People Memories Insecure
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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
Insecure

"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."

Past Space Insecure
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Katie Price Model, Television personality
Insecure

"I'm so loud, as if I know what I'm on about, but deep inside, I'm so insecure. Just a little girl."

Girl Littles Insecure
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Franz Kafka Writer
Insecure

"Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all."

Children Littles Insecure
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Dale Carnegie Author, Speaker
Insecure

"People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?"

Future Insecure Cocky
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