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  • Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

  • The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

    Joseph Brodsky's commencement address at Williams College (1984), as quoted in Robert Inchausti "Thinking through Thomas Merton: Contemplation for Contemporary Times" (p. 110), 2014.
  • Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

    "If - " st. 1 (1910)
  • To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there! My unlucky star led me from Hegel to Schopenhauer . . . Even in Kant there were many things that I could grasp so little that given his general acuity of mind I almost suspected that he was pulling the reader's leg or was even an imposter.

    Hope   Stars   Mind  
  • At the end of the day, acting is all about telling lies. We are professional imposters and the audience accept that. We've made this deal that we tell you a tale and a pack of lies, but there will be a truth in it. You may enjoy it, or it will disturb you.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

  • I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms.

    "Rufus Wainwright: 'I am somewhat imprisoned by my fabulous career'". Interview with Fiona Sturges, www.independent.co.uk. April 14, 2012.
  • Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is trying to solve, and thinking to encompass his adversary, merely keeps prowling interminably around himself, the heroic nature will throw itself into the heart of the danger to turn it to its own use, just as captured artillery is turned about and aimed at the backs of the fleeing enemy.

    Heart   Men   Thinking  
    "Joy". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1929.
  • Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people.

    Real   People   Looks  
    Augusten Burroughs (2013). “Dry: A Memoir”, p.111, Picador
  • Who are the slumlords in the Black community? The so-called Jews. … Who is it sucking our blood in the Black community? A white imposter Arab and a white imposter Jew.

    Blood   White   Community  
  • I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

    Education   Math   Use  
    Phaedo 92
  • There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the reality

  • The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

    Art   Business   Museums  
    Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult
  • Self-doubt is common, but when it impedes you from attaining your goals it’s time to take action. This book shows you how to move beyond feeling like an imposter so that you can achieve your full personal and professional potential.

    Moving   Book   Self  
  • I've always viewed my career with some suspicion, like I don't want to count on it to be the only thing I do. Partly that has to do with feeling like an imposter, like we all do sometimes, and partly I like doing other things, and being a full-time artist takes a focus I recognise I don't have.

    Artist   Careers   Focus  
    Source: www.independent.co.uk
  • this lifeless paper, cruel imposter, was the only to take her with him

    Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.16, Delacorte Press
  • If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a fabricator of falsehoods, inventor of words, practised in lawsuits, a pettifogger, a rattle, a fox, a sharper, a knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an imposter, a rogue that deserves the cat-o-nine-tails, a blackguard, a twister, a licker-up of hashes; they call all this when they meet me, if they please, I care not.

    Cat   Men   Tails  
  • To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.

    Nathaniel Branden (1998). “A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity”, Jossey-Bass
  • Ladies and gentleman of Florida, this is the real Jeff Ament...take a very good look because there's an imposter running around...if someone comes up to you and says he's Jeff Ament and says he wants to take your pot or wants to take you to a strip club, it's probably not him.

    Running   Real   Florida  
  • A wolf is no less a wolf because he's dressed in sheepskin and the devil is no less the devil because he's dressed as an angel.

  • It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.

    C. S. Lewis (2014). “Letters to an American Lady”, p.114, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.

  • Like most other creatives, I struggle with self-sabotage, self-doubt, and feeling like an imposter more often than not. I struggle with expressing myself, because it does sometimes feel easier or safer not to.

    Life   Happy   Struggle  
  • The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!

    War   Believe   Men  
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2010). “The Basic Political Writings (Second Edition)”, p.69, Hackett Publishing
  • We shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other.

    Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.

    Art   Mistake   Lying  
  • I have a very vibrant imposter syndrome that goes on throughout most of my life, but nothing more than when someone has to put a hat on me or some kind of sash and go, 'We're giving you this certificate.'

    Giving   Goes On   Hats  
    Source: www.abc.net.au
  • Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

  • He who claims to be sure of something for which there is no evidence is a fool, and he who acts on the basis of what cannot be proved is an imposter.

  • He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.

    William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.574, Univ of California Press
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