Top 100 Person Is Quotes
#1. (According to some accounts, a journalist told Eddington in the early 1920s that he had heard there were only three people in the world who understood general relativity. Eddington paused, then replied, "I am trying to think who the third person is.")
Stephen Hawking
#2. Forbes describes how Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel Prize-winning psychologist, discovered that "people would rather do business with a person they like and trust rather than someone they don't, even if the likeable person is offering a lower quality product or service at a higher price.
Sally Hogshead
#3. I'd rather play with 10 people and just get penalized all the way until we have to do something else rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be a part of this team.
Mike Singletary
#4. A wise person is full of questions. A dull person is full of answers.
Paulo Coelho
#5. A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray.
Alan Sherman
#6. All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination.
John Shelby Spong
#7. Loving another person is taking a giant leap of faith. It's being vulnerable at the most basic level. It's like taking your heart out of your chest and chucking it off a cliff, hoping that someone is waiting at the bottom with open arms to catch it.
J. Sterling
#8. I believe a 'talented' person is one who has learned how to effectively cultivate and polish any of the many desirable capabilities with which most of us are born but few of us nurture.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#9. Success only happens when a person is dedicated to a cause greater than oneself.
Angela Lynne Craig
#10. If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." "I'm
Paulo Coelho
#11. The most important quality of an inept person is to rely on popular belief and hearsay.
Marie De Gournay
#12. My thing is when people come up and say to me good set tonight and I say you too and then you find out that person is not in any band. Happens to me a lot.
Oliver Sykes
#13. India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
#14. There's a lot that can be said about holding hands. Such a simple gesture, and yet it yells things. This person is mine, it says. It anchors two people together and keeps them rooted. Hands tell complicated stories, and by holding hands, the stories are combined. Lifeline to lifeline.
R.K. Ryals
#15. The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.
Paulo Coelho
#16. When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ.
Martin Luther
#17. It is easier with the right person. A good test of a relationship is how well you both deal with challenges. If one person is more invested, it shows. If you're with the wrong person, it feels like too much work. But if you're unhappy more than you're happy, it's not the right relationship for you.
Susane Colasanti
#18. Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#19. I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'
Dustin Moskovitz
#20. I really appreciate the sport background because the structure and the discipline that that gives a person is incredible, and it just carries with you wherever you go.
Estella Warren
#21. A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
Benjamin Disraeli
#22. When a person is clubbed violently on the head, he collapses and stops breathing. Some day, he will stop breathing anyway.
Milan Kundera
#23. An insane person is, basically, someone that isn't true to himself and lives between the reality he understands and the distorted perspective of it that he's trying to control. And the bigger this gap is, the more you can be sure to be in front of a neurotic or psychotic individual.
Daniel Marques
#24. If every person is born with two sides, one good, one bad, is it possible that each side could love a different heart?
Jillian Peery
#25. Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.
Nelson Mandela
#26. I think it's a deeper issue on the lack of communication in our culture in general. It's not abnormal to see a family out to dinner and every person is on their phone instead of communicating with each other and that's pretty sad.
Laura Benanti
#27. I had realized many years before why "patients" are called that; it's because a sick person is generally incapacitated, and thus obliged to put up with any amount of harassment and annoyance from persons who are not sick.
Diana Gabaldon
#28. If you REALLY want to know what another person is like, notice how he or she treats the less fortunate or those without position or title.
Steve Shallenberger
#29. One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.
Bob Riley
#30. The most important duty of a person is to love himself wholeheartedly.
Debasish Mridha
#31. Putting a body in a box as a keepsake for mortals to cling to long after everything that was that person is gone - it turns my stomach. Graveyards are for the living, not the dead.
Heather Brewer
#32. The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions.
John Mayer
#33. A jealous person is doubly unhappy-over what he has, which is judged inferior, and over which he has not, which is judged superior. Such a person is doubly removed from knowing the true blessing of creation.
Desmond Tutu
#35. See. The whole concept of love is
much more complex. Love's like God
or something: It's everywhere ... I
see it, I feel it, but I don't know
if another person is going to hand
it to me.
Richard Linklater
#36. Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin
#37. I don't like answering private questions. The answers are often ambiguous and can be interpreted in different ways. Even when the other person is close to you.
Jean-Claude Izzo
#38. Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.
Christina Baldwin
#39. Every single person is unlike anyone else. Therefore, in creating a portrait of someone ... we must look carefully to catch that particular unique quality. In fact, we can neglect nothing because everything we select or do sends a message to the observer ...
Alton Tobey
#40. How dangerous it is to assume that a person is more than a person.
John Green
#41. I turned my ear toward the door because I heard him breathing. When you're alone and afraid, the simple sound of the steady in and out of air being drawn by another person is good medicine.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#42. A person is on the right track if he develops his gift and turns it to minister to God
Sunday Adelaja
#43. A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
Alexander Hamilton
#44. The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.
Ludwig Borne
#45. The NBA's been around how long? A hundred years? Fifty years? So to change it now, whoever that person is needs his college degree revoked ... Whoever did that needs to be fired. It was terrible, a terrible decision. Awful. I might get fined for saying that, but so what?
Shaquille O'Neal
#46. The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a
new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be
released and channeled toward some great good.
Brian Tracy
#47. The concept behind personal integrity is wholeness. When a person is the same without as within, when what others know about him is the same truth he knows about himself, he has integrity.
William Backus
#48. [His eyes are] Atlantic Ocean blue, just like he'd said. It's strange because of course I'd known that. But the difference between knowing it and seeing them in person is the difference between dreaming of flying and flight.
Nicola Yoon
#49. I'm here for you in the same way that you're here for me, each person is an intricate piece of infinity.
Eyedea
#50. You never know what a person is going through, regardless of how much money they make or however great a life you think they're living.
Terrell Owens
#51. A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.
Alan Watts
#52. There is always a bit of seduction to it when one person is clothed and the other is naked, which can be a little weird. Everybody should be naked. In that case, it would be easier. Let's do a huge naked photo shoot!
Carine Roitfeld
#53. A spiritual person is vast, like an ocean - but very mighty, very powerful.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#54. As per the age-old Customs and Central Excise Rules 1967, a person is allowed to carry only Rs 20,000 worth of gold.
Vayalar Ravi
#55. Also she had the power of silent sympathy. That sounds rather dull, I know, but it's not so dull as it sounds. It just means that a person is able to know that you are unhappy, and to love you extra on that account, without bothering you by telling you all the time how sorry she is for you.
E. Nesbit
#56. The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you're doing.
Richard Hamming
#57. Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.
Cynthia Rylant
#58. Baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you. So don't let Mrs Dubose get you down. She had enough troubles or her own.
Harper Lee
#59. Some people think falling love with every 2nd person is true feeling and Emotions. but it's actually a dirty mind which force people to change partners for flirting game.
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#60. To resolve the dissonance between "I love this person" and "This person is doing some things that are driving me crazy" will enhance their love story or destroy it.
Carol Tavris
#61. Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.
Bob Schieffer
#62. Each person is just an imprint of the many people who have crossed paths with us over the years, some more than others. Most of us never think to say thank you. I know I never had.
Rose Christo
#63. sugar activates the same area of the brain that is activated while a person is consuming drugs such as cocaine.
Rebecca Thomas
#64. An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.
Muhammad Yunus
#65. For me, the difference between an 'ordinary' and an 'extraordinary' person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.
Jody Williams
#66. No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
James Anthony Froude
#67. Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.
Matthew Specktor
#68. The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be explored.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#69. What I think is important for a young person is to figure out how to be useful and not be so concentrated on themselves, but to see what they can do to make the overall collaboration with all the other people involved in a movie work better.
Harrison Ford
#70. When I play with people, one of the first rules is to listen. Just by the near fact that you listen and you're open to listening, or you're listening and you're open to what this other person is doing. Also you going to be open to what you're doing and you're not going to have it like 'planned out'.
Hamid Drake
#71. The time is now, the person is you; better your life and become a name to conjure with in this day and age.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#72. A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.
James Allen
#73. What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.
Naomi Campbell
#75. I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
Malin Akerman
#76. Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?'
Alan Alda
#78. We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand
Leo Tolstoy
#79. The ultimate measure of a person is not her mistakes or accomplishments, but what she does with them.
Liza M. Wiemer
#80. A truly successful person is some one , whose failures are equally spoken as his success.
Gopichand Lagadapati
#81. All men have a natural fear of making a mistake
by believing too well of a person. However, the error of believing too ill of a person is perhaps not feared, at least not in the same degree as the other.
Soren Kierkegaard
#82. The physical life of an individual person is limited, but the life of the masses united as an independent social-political organism is immortal ... Only when an individual becomes a member of this community can he acquire the immortal social-political life.
Kim Jong Il
#83. He argues that science cannot provide the means by which to judge whether its technological inventions are good or bad for human beings. To do that, we must know what a good human person is, and science cannot adjudicate morality or define such a thing.
Timothy J. Keller
#85. When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
Shana Alexander
#86. A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
David Brinkley
#87. Tat tvam asi: "Thou art That." Atman is Brahman: the Self in each person is not different from the Godhead.
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
#88. Being a good person is a very important part of my identity, but being a genuinely good person is time-consuming and complicated.
Allie Brosh
#89. Keep in mind that the tendency to be judgmental - toward yourself or another person - is a good barometer of how anxious or stressed out you are. Judging others is simply the flip side of judging yourself.
Harriet Lerner
#90. You know a person is teaching the truth when no one debates it." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
Amunhotep El Bey
#91. Every person is a unique and autonomous person and actually, considered independently, the greatest artwork of all time ...
Thomas Bernhard
#92. As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.
Gautama Buddha
#93. People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on; but if anyone attempts the real imitation of Him, there are no bounds to the outcry with which the presumption of that person is condemned.
Florence Nightingale
#94. The price for living the life I have
for any serious, devoted person, is that at times one must live alone, or feel alone. I think loneliness is associated in many people's minds when they think about success.
Helen Frankenthaler
#95. The difference between the insane and the not-insane person is that the latter doesn't do or say the things he thinks.
Clarice Lispector
#96. People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices
Alfie Kohn
#97. You discover that a "bored person" is not who you are. Boredom is simply a conditioned energy movement within you. Neither are you an angry, sad, or fearful person. Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not "yours," not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go.
Eckhart Tolle
#98. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you,
Thich Nhat Hanh
#99. A person who chooses to love his or her enemies can have no enemies. That person is left only with neighbors.
Preston Sprinkle
#100. A baby's existence for the first three months is a one-way street. One person is doing all the work and the other is crying, sleeping and pooping. So the first moment when you're actually able to do something and they acknowledge your presence, that's a big deal. A very big deal.
Colin Hanks