Quotes About What Shapes A Person

#1. My brain was fine, but I did not feel like myself. My body was frail and weak - the person who could run half marathons was a distant memory - and that, too, shapes your identity. Racking back pain can mold an identity; fatigue and nausea can, as well.

Paul Kalanithi

#2. I'm inspired by lines, by shapes, when I see a dress on a person, when I see a beauty in a face, whether it's a man from an ancient culture or a beautiful young model. So what inspires me? Life inspires me.

Russell James

#3. I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded.

Julia Roberts

#4. Your faith shapes the kind of person that you are.

Mark Martin

#5. Each person's life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came before.

Suketu Mehta

#6. The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what they do. Your thoughts shape you.

Albert Einstein

#7. In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

Molly Ringwald

#8. People have shapes.All we do and say and think and believe cuts outlines around us like a jigsaw.And sometimes, you run into a person who seems to fit right beside you in the picture.Someone who sticks out where you dent in and zigs where you zag.

Ben Stephenson

#9. G-rated language is making me a less angry person. Behavior shapes emotion.

A. J. Jacobs

#10. I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.

Mary Beth McKenzie

#11. We kind of shape our truths as we speak them. We fashion things to suit the occasion or the person or our own needs in the moment.

George Carlin

#12. The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings ... The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#13. What work a person does to earn a viable income shapes their thinking patterns, buttresses their sense of self-worth, and affects how they adapt to predictable and unpredictable obstacles.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#14. Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you to be the person you'll be tomorrow.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#15. Former US president, drug baron and pedophile, George Herbert Walker Bush, incidentally, is mentioned more than any other person in my experience in relation to shape-shifting.

David Icke

#16. How could a person possibly become what he is not thinking? Nor is any thought, when persistently entertained, too small to have its effect. The 'divinity that shapes our ends' is indeed ourselves.

Spencer W. Kimball

#17. Brand a man as a thief and no one will ever hire him for honest labor - he will be a hardened robber within weeks. The brand does not reveal a person's nature, it shapes it.

Frances Hardinge

#18. A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things.

Henry Moore

#19. It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person's life.

John Eldredge

#20. I think that having the years in college to really focus on your training is incredibly valuable. College shapes the kind of person/actor that one becomes.

Rachel Hoffman

#21. Treat yourself like an overweight, out of shape person and that's what you will be. Why not train and treat yourself like an athlete?

Chalene Johnson

#22. Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

Jim Woodring

#23. I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.

Viola Davis

#24. A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.

Helen Keller

#25. The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with ...

Laura Miller

#26. Next time you meet a 'foreigner', remember it's only like a window with a different shape to it and the person who's sitting inside is you.

Yoko Ono

#27. If a person weren't failing in some way, shape or form, would he or she need to blame, justify, or complain? The obvious answer is no.

T. Harv Eker

#28. Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.

Jodi Picoult

#29. Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Al Jourgensen

#30. The subtle hues of gold and yellow and the fresh greens and the pepper red seemed to spiral into a kaleidoscope of shapes and forms that made the tips of a person's toes tingle, so that some were inclined to remove their shoes in its presence.

Jeffry R. Halverson

#31. Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

James Russell Lowell