Person Quotes
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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.
Clarence Day
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For most companies, the hard thing is making the product work well enough to convince a single person at a time to switch to it.
Stewart Butterfield
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Ultimate audacity: to want to love a person – to say nothing of one's neighbor! – as God loves him.
Adrienne von Speyr
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Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
Nolan Bushnell
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Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power.
Alexander Lowen
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People always ask me, 'Hey, what's Matt Damon like?' He's just a dude, just a really good person and one hell of an actor.
Michael Kelly
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I don't feel I'm a compulsive person. I multitask. I'm really well-organised, and I have lots of people to help me.
Alan Cumming
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But when we find that one person who completes us, we don't give up. No matter how bad we screw up. We make it right.
Abbi Glines
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Sickness is the first warning that we have made a wrong judgement. A healthy person is never unhappy.
George Ohsawa
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No person or thing hurting you is worth you hurting yourself.
Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
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Ordinarily, I am the person who falls in love quickly and somewhat inappropriately and then goes on to destroy what is a good thing. That's always been my style. So, you know: I get it. And I feel right now the way I imagine all those guys felt with me. And I have to say, for the first time in my life, I feel something approaching compassion for them.
Sarah Dunn
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The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.
Leon Uris
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I think nobody is in a position to react to these big macro-issues. Where is the dollar going to be or what is G.D.P. growth going to be in China? For every smart person on one side of the question, there is another smart person on the other side.
David F. Swensen
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I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.
Alicia Keys
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When I was little, I didn't understand why ferris wheels existed. They were just sluggish and went up high. I got bored with it after only one ride. The roller coaster and the loop slider... I only paid attention to the thrilling rides. But... I kind of understand now. Ferris wheels are for slowly cutting across the sky with the person you like and maybe saying things like, "Isn't this a little scary?
Chica Umino
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A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing.
Nicholas Sparks
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In New Zealand, we have a one-party disclosure system, where if one of you knows you're being recorded, it's completely fine. It doesn't matter if the other person doesn't know. Look, I'm not breaking new ground by recording people who don't want to be recorded.
David Farrier
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I'm a positive person who likes to see things get done.
Kathy Calvin
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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.
George Bernard Shaw
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Have you ever met a successful person who wasn't restless- who was satisfied with where he or she was in life? They want new challenges. They want to get up and go...and that's one of the reasons they're successful.
Alex Trebek
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People always brand me as this person who is anti-Brady, and I don't think that I ever have been, except that occasionally I would like to talk about something else that I'm doing.
Eve Plumb
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Beware the person who is on a hot streak.
James Cook
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It's easy to be a tough competitor and still be the kind of person with whom people love to compete.
Chuck Thompson