Ryan North Quotes

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

I talk like I know what I'm saying, but I don't.

I'm a fake intellectual.

I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

It was always important to me to make sure Pooh came across as much more than a bear of very little brain. There is an innate wisdom there somewhere.

I put up a front to make people think I had all of this confidence in myself, which I didn't.

I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments.

We'll see who believes in me now. I am the Prankster God - I am killing me!

She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments. Instead of feeling worthy of recognition, they feel undeserving and guilty, as if a mistake has been made. Despite being high achievers, even experts in their fields, women can't seem to shake the sense that it is only a matter of time until they are found out for who they really are- impostors with limited skills or abilities.

That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

The confident artist is a fool.

Confidence is inspiring. Yet so often misplaced. (Robert Thornhill)

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

For example, the wind has its reasons. We just don't notice as we go about our lives. But then, at some point, we are made to notice. The wind envelops you with a certain purpose in mind, and it rocks you. The wind knows everything that's inside you. And not just the wind. Everything, including a stone. They all know us very well. From top to bottom. It only occurs to us at certain times. And all we can do is go with those things. As we take them in, we survive, and deepen.

We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.

The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty to the ear, or to the mind.

Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

The best way I have found to follow my true desires is to pay attention to my intuitive sense. We all have great wisdom within us, a part of us that knows exactly what we need at every moment. We are born with this intuitive sense, but most of us are quickly taught to distrust and ignore it. We have to relearn something that should come naturally. Fortunately, it's not too difficult; it just takes some practice.

The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.

I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.

No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.

The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.

I was a pretty confident kid, even if it was all false bravado.

I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me.