Person Quotes
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It was smart on his part, but it still took guts. I kind of admire him for doing that.
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There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.
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The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you've barely met the curiosity is intoxicating.
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You can always become the person you would have liked to be.
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No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health.
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Education is power, it changes your whole life, it can create a life for yourself. So the more educated you are, the more you learn about what you care about, you become a more caring person. And if you can speak about what you care about to a person you disagree with, without denigrating or insulting them, then you may actually be heard. And you may even change their mind, or they may change yours.
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No person or thing hurting you is worth you hurting yourself.
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She could make more phone calls in a day than any human being I ever worked with, ... She always could outwork any young person. She pushed like there was no tomorrow.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.
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I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does?
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The only person stopping you from doing something is yourself, and looking for excuses all the time just gets in the way of obtaining your own goals. It's like the writer who keeps getting up and straightening the pictures in the room.
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Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.
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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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I can't imagine I could have become the person I am now without books. Books became synonymous with freedom. They showed that you could open doors and walk through.
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In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.
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I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today.
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Every person has a different view of another person's image. That's all perception. The character of a man, the integrity, that's who you are.
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Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.
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A person does not choose his or her fate; he or she only fulfills it. We are bound by our fate as long as we accept the values that determine it.
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Every person with whom you interact is a part of the person you are becoming. Not a single interaction with a single person is left out of the process of your becoming.
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I'm much too modest a person.
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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.
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Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.
