Quotes on Persons

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Beware of the person of one book.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

The lucky person passes for a genius.

Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.

WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.

When a person does not think, "Where shall I put it?" the mind will extend throughout the entire body and move to any place at all. . . . The effort not to stop the mind in just one place - this is discipline. Not stopping the mind is object and essence. Put it nowhere and it will be everywhere. Even in moving the mind outside the body, if it is sent in one direction, it will be lacking in nine others. If the mind is not restricted to just one direction, it will be in all ten.

Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.

If you can become the leader you ought to be on the inside, you will be able to become the person you want on the outside. People will want to follow you. And when that happens, you'll be able to tackle anything in this world.

Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person's shoes. There's no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.

Good character improves every aspect of a person’s life.

If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.

Being known primarily for their well-knownness, celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by becoming widely known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off one another.

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

I am in competition with no one. I have no desire to play the game of being better than anyone. I am simply trying to be better than the person I was yesterday.