Quotes on Persons

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.

A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.

Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.

You are in charge of your own attitude whatever others do or circumstances you face. The only person you can control is yourself...worry more about your attitude than your aptitude or lineage.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Strange how one person can saturate a room with vitality, with excitement. Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Such people spread a grayness in the air about them.

Maybe what a gay icon is, is a person who is rooted for — in other words, cheered on — by people who feel different.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's nothing much interesting to tell about me; what's interesting is the person I'm photographing, and that's what I try to show. [...] I think each photographer has a point of view and a way of looking at the world... that has to do with your subject matter and how you choose to present it. What's interesting is letting people tell you about themselves in the picture.

There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

Every person you meet is waging his or her own war against a callous universe that is plotting against them.

[T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self.

The main conclusion arrived at in this work, namely that man is descended from some lowly-organised form, will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many persons. But there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians.