Person Quotes
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I am a person of faith, so I come from a community that's involved in 360,000 churches across the country, that is an institution that could, in a relatively short period of time, provide hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of positive male role models.
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Treat people like you want to be treated; live and let live; and also give the other person a break now and then.
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Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause to individuals whose own work does not require isolated effort, the writer who is engaged on a book must learn to say it. He must say it consistently to all interrupters; to the numerous callers and correspondents who want him to speak, open bazaars, see them for 'only' ten minutes, attend literary parties, put people up, or read, correct and find publishers for semi-literate manuscripts by his personal friends.
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So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.
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I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.
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I'm a pretty private person. I live in Texas, and I like my small network.
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It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.
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Often when someone comes to you and wants to vent, it's so tempting to start giving advice. But if you allow the person just to let the feelings out, and then at another time come back with advice or comments, that person would experience a deeper healing.
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There exists only one person who has the power to cast the deciding vote that will kill your dream you!
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If you’re the type of person who wants to associate exclusively with those who perfectly mirror your own ethical worldview, you’re reducing significantly the scope of your potential life experience.
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When you watch all these other projects, you always see the little guy, sitting in the corner, feeling sorry for himself and blaming the whole world, ... You don't see a normal person.
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I'm a people's person, believe it or not. I just have a dark side to me, which we all do.
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If you're a public relations person, any press is good press. It certainly brings more to the story than just skating laps and who's winning a gold medal.
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There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
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I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a movie. Wouldn't that be awful of me to say that? The only sympathizing thing I might say for people that want to [grumble] is that a filmmaker should have an understanding for the place where the people you're portraying are coming from.
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I'm a pretty romantic person, I love little notes.
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A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.
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Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.
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I'm inspired by love, by the moments that we commit to something with all our heart - be it a person, a project, an animal, anything really. It's undeniably inspiring, that acknowledgment of existence, that I love, that I care. That fills me with purpose.
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I'm a very religious person.
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I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode.
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The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
