Persons Quotes - Page 26

• I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mirrors, Ugly, Wonder

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.149, Canongate Books

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• Repressed anger becomes a temporary madness. Something happens which is beyond your control. If you could have controlled, you would have controlled it still -- but suddenly it was overflowing. Suddenly it was beyond you. You couldn't do anything, you felt helpless -- and it came out. Such a person may not be angry, but he moves and lives in anger.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Anger, May

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• One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.

  Alice Miller

  Anger, Way, Argument

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• I'm a 'what if' person. I have always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience. I have taken blows. I have had high moments. But I don't think the blows have ever hardened me. My enthusiasms are still big.

  Kevin Costner

  Positive, Taken, Blow

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• In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

  Robert Grudin

  Time, Future, Waiting

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Pace, You Like It

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1826). “Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew”, p.165

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• Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Heart, Honor

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1924). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.217, Library of Alexandria

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• Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

  Horace

  Time, Pampering, Youth

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• All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

  Bertrand Russell

  Time, Neglect, Duty

  "Some Cambridge Dons of the Nineties" by Bertrand Russell, 1956.

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• History is change happening one person at a time.

  Matt Damon

  Inspirational, Happenings

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• The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.

  Edward B. Lewis

  Inspirational, Mother, Men

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• I am not the person who is singing
  I am the silent one inside. . . .
  I am not my house, my car, my songs
  They are only stops along my way. . . .

  Paula Cole

  Inspirational, Song, Car

  Song: Me, Album: This Fire, 1996

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• Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this way..... true communication can happen only in that open space.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Powerful, Communication

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• Some people serve with pride - because they 'want to' do and be their best; other people serve with disdain because they 'have to' do their job. Which person do you think will end up running the show?

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• Barack, like any leader, is human.
  And, you know, our challenges in this country isn't finding the next person who's gonna deliver us from our own evil.
  Because our challenges are us.
  The challenges that this country faces is how are we as individuals in this society gonna change?
  What are we gonna do differently?

  Michelle Obama

  Inspirational, Leadership, Country

  "Michelle Obama On Love, Family & Politics". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. February 15, 2008.

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• I try to make time for reading each night. In addition to the usual newspapers and magazines, I make it a priority to read at least one newsweekly from cover to cover. If I were to read what intrigues me- say, the science and business sections - then I would finish the magazine the same person I was when I started. So I read it all.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Reading, Night

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• Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ninety Nine

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• I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

  William Hazlitt

  Inspirational, Mind, Doe

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• Who you really are, your True Nature, is no more tied to the kind of person you've been than the wind is tied to the skies through which it moves.

  Guy Finley

  Inspirational, Moving, Wind

  Guy Finley (1994). “Freedom From the Ties That Bind: The Secret of Self Liberation”, p.13, BookBaby

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• I've never met a person I've couldn't call a beauty.

  Andy Warhol

  Beauty, Mets

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• There's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their "discomfort" like a favorite shirt.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Long

  "Fictional character: Johnny". "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac". Comic book by Jhonen Vasquez, Volume 7, 1995 - 1997.

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• The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

  Eugene Kennedy

  Friendship, Real, Simple

  "The Promise of Friendship". Book by Kathy Wagoner, 2002.

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• I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring.

  Sloane Crosley

  Break Up, One Day, Way

  "I want to be alone: the rise and rise of solo living". www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.

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• In daily practice, the word brand stands as a surrogate for the word reputation. In fact, your brand acts just like a person. When you know a person's reputation, you can predict his or her behavior. You know what that person is likely to do or say-or not do or say-in any given situation. Your brand works the same way.

  Jim Mullen

  Business, Practice, Way

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• You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

  Stephen Covey

  Loyalty, Business, Heart

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.69, Mango Media Inc.

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