Persons Quotes
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She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.
Muriel Spark
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...When someone asks me to help create a room my first reaction, if I do not already know the person, is to try to feel out what he or she really wants the room to be and to understand, if possible, what "memory," old or new, has brought this idea about.
Sister Parish
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The capacity for judgment, to make plans, to choose one’s good, is what we share with other persons. It is what makes us persons.
Charles Fried
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You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what you read, handing the book to a person who needs it... pushing those around you to get in sync and to take action-that's the main reason it's a book, not a video or a seminar. A book is a souvenir and a container and a motivator and an easily leveraged tool. Hoarding books makes them worth less, not more.
Seth Godin
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I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.
Cat Power
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In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center of a person's life.
Stephen Covey
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Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain.
Simon Sinek
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I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it.
Merle Haggard
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I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.
Sean Lennon
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World peace is no longer some pie-in-the-sky thing, because no single person or country is going to solve it on their own.
Herbie Hancock
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I think a lot of people try to edit themselves out and I think that's a big mistake, because the person being interviewed is responding to a person, and if you don't know who that person is then you don't really know what's going on with the person being interviewed.
Sheila Heti
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You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising racism.You are confronted with the reality of racism when you go in the streets, when the eyes of others come upon you. [James] Baldwin goes back with you to all the experiences you went through and gives a name to them, and explains why it is like this.
Raoul Peck
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A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
William Shenstone
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
Willa Cather
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Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.
Robin Gibb Bee Gees
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I'm a sexual person. A lot of different people turn me on and have over the years, and I've always wanted to make it very clear that this was not coming from some sort of antimale point of view.
Sandra Bernhard
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I just want to be who I am. I think all women go through the belief that they need to be superwoman - that to be successful in any way, and I don't necessarily mean in business or anything, but just to be a successful person, you have to be superwoman.
Cindy McCain
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I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.
Richard Pryor
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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
Horace
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Admire? No, I have never said that. I still appreciate Angela Merkel as a very professional and open person.
Vladimir Putin
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I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause.
William Shakespeare
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If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.
Seth Godin
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Google is so big you have no idea what a given person does.
Cathy O'Neil