To The Person Quotes

#1. I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably, it's very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They're not really interested in the person; he doesn't relate to the person.

Irvin D. Yalom

#2. Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who's looking at it.

Jay Maisel

#3. I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying ... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.

Jane Horrocks

#4. You've got to want to be married to the person you're married to.

Rita Wilson

#5. You go on reacting to the image not to the person, and hence there is no relationship. When there is no image, then there is relationship.

Rajneesh

#6. Sometimes thanking someone is more important to the person giving the thanks than the one who receives it.

Robin Hobb

#7. The nurse pointed out that identical twins were already clones in a sense, and Mother Emmanuel suggested that the soul to worry about belonged to the person who would have himself cloned at great expense when so many unwanted children were going hungry.

Mark Salzman

#8. Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

John Lancaster Spalding

#9. Mathematics, mostly, is a communal enterprise, each advance the product of a huge network of minds working toward a common purpose, even if we accord special honor to the person who places the last stone in the arch.

Jordan Ellenberg

#10. The process of grieving any loss is dependent upon your relationship to the person.

Asa Don Brown

#11. I suppose I've always been attracted to this sort of outsider in general - in literature, in music, politics, whatever - and to the person that is able to be relentlessly themselves. I don't think that I have that quality, that strength of mind.

Cillian Murphy

#12. Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Tom Stoppard

#13. Cowriting is very personal. A great song is an honest song, so you have to be able to open up to the person in the room. It's like a blind date. I know in the first five minutes if it's gonna be weird.

Liz Rose

#14. You should always be your greatest motivator. Never leave that power in someone else's hands. Once you learn to love the person you are, there are no limits to the person you can become.

Carlos Wallace

#15. The secret shape of this book is a parachute
all the lines leading to the person hanging there
drifting on the wind and always falling
waiting for the mists to clear

Alicia Suskin Ostriker

#16. I've gotten a lot more comfortable with the audition process, but there's something that really turned me off initially when I was younger, to auditioning. The idea that I couldn't get to the person that was actually making the film really frustrated me.

Amy Seimetz

#17. It is a lot easier to prove that you don't love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best 'proofs' I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#18. Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes-they throw off like sparks. But once you fight through the sparks and get to the person, you find just that, a person, a big jumble of likes, dislikes, fears, and desires.

Dorothy West

#19. I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.

Maya Angelou

#20. Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.

Napoleon Hill

#21. It is impossible to experience a person's life, or to be compassionate, if you do not listen to the person or if you do not ask questions.

James Martin

#22. Somebody's values and their morals are shown best in the way they treat others and their children, and the world in general. It's not necessarily the way that they respond sexually and emotionally to the person they choose to live with.

Rosie O'Donnell

#23. Kind of. Just - we don't know what happens when we die, right? I mean, maybe we go up to some perfect place in the sky, or maybe we turn to dust, or we're spirits and can still think and hear and go places. So talking to the person that's dead isn't crazy. They could be listening to you. Right?

Heather Demetrios

#24. Violence is rather a strange phenomenon that can be compared to fire, once out of control it's loyal to no one, not even to the person who started it.

Drexel Deal

#25. Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

Sharon Stone

#26. No matter how big or small the service is, Always express your Thanks to the person who served you.

Mohith Agadi

#27. Never tell all you know - not even to the person you know best.

Agatha Christie

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

Daniel Goleman

#29. We spend far too much of our lives at work to have it be in opposition to the person we desire to be.

Scott Hammerle

#30. Prove it to the person that looks back at you in the mirror

Nancy B. Brewer

#31. I say we scrap the current system and replace it with a system wherein you add your name to the bottom of a list, and then you send some money to the person at the top of the list, and then you ... Oh, wait, that is our current system.

Dave Barry

#32. Maybe growing up was just about becoming closer to the person you always were.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#33. I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

Laura Linney

#34. Do you believe people are made for each other, like there's a force we can't see that brings us to the person we're meant for?

Renee Carlino

#35. The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it ... -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#36. To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.

Maajid Nawaz

#37. I think maybe that is what love is. Seeing beyond the scars, to the person below the surface.

Cathy Maxwell

#38. Become aware of God, in whose presence you are while you pray ... Then take a formula of prayer and recite it with perfect attention both to the words you are saying and to the Person to whom you are saying them.

John Climacus

#39. But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ.

Marvin Olasky

#40. Outwardly, other than her hair, she had not changed much. She was still more or less the same cool, aloof woman who garnered more respect than affection. On the inside, however, it had been impossible to return to the person she used to be.

Sherry Thomas

#41. Don't compare yourself to others, only to the person you were yesterday.

Karina Halle

#42. One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow ... Under ordinary circumstances, jealousy is a suspicion to the person who excites it and degrading to the person who indulges it.

Victor Hugo

#43. I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.

Charlotte Eriksson

#44. Music is about love. Music is love. Music is the way you talk to the person you like.

Tegan Quin

#45. It is easy to blame the person responsible for the crime, to hate them and despise them, but when we sit idly by and watch evil happen right before our very eyes and become bound to the person by hate, we become co-conspirators of the wrong.

E.J. Squires

#46. When you're on the street and, in love, you hand someone a sandwich because he or she has no food, even if you don't say a word, your actions are prophesying to the person the heart and mind of God - and that's demonstration of love.

Shawn Gabie

#47. An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.

Thomas Aquinas

#48. Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.

Lynn Johnston

#49. Oftentimes we say goodbye to the person we love without wanting to. Though that doesnt mean that we've stopped loving them or we've stopped to care. Sometimes goodbye is a painful way to say I love you.

Kezia Dugdale

#50. Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#51. A risk is something that feels risky to the person who's taking it.

John D'Agata

#52. It was important for the Supreme Court to say it's a matter of constitutional law that everyone is equal, to say everyone is entitled to the dignity that comes from being married to the person you love.

David Boies

#53. As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation.

David Platt

#54. Your taste in music, the kinds of books you enjoy, even your favorite foods all contribute to the person you are and the portfolio you're creating - and therefore, make up your calling.

Jeff Goins

#55. The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.

Katharine Graham

#56. Twitter is the perfect complement to television. TV has always been social. You talk to the person you're sitting next to on the couch. You talk to the people you're - you know, at work with the next day around the proverbial water cooler.

Dick Costolo

#57. It's my belief that, like every other American, gay and lesbian couples should be able to make a lifetime commitment to the person they love and protect their families.

Mark Udall

#58. The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.

Bear Grylls

#59. It's unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who's wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you're looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.

Kareena Kapoor Khan

#60. PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

Ambrose Bierce

#61. I think when you've gone through a betrayal in life then when somebody's been betrayed you can talk to the person about it. If your husband's been unfaithful to you, you know what that's like, you know how that feels. You can share true empathy with someone.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#62. At one time, the first step in courtship was asking permission to write to the person who interested your affections,

Joey W. Hill

#63. The world, more suffering than sinning, turns toward Pope Francis as in a conversation people turn to the person who is making sense of things.

Eugene Kennedy

#64. Chief Inspector Gamache knew one thing about hate. It bound you forever to the person you hated. Murder wasn't committed out of hate, it was done as a terrible act of freedom. To finally rid yourself of the burden.

Louise Penny

#65. I swear Dev your cock is going to be the death of us all.'
Dev just sat back and smiled unrepentantly. 'I beg to differ. My cock is like a finely tuned homing device. He led me straight to the person I needed to see. His judgement is infallible ...

Lanie Malone

#66. Words belong to the person who wrote them

Malcolm Gladwell

#67. When I get into relationships, I'm an all-or-nothing person. I just completely give in to the person. It becomes my first priority in life; family, friends and career follow.

Sonam Kapoor

#68. Asking forgiveness involves giving power to the person you're seeking forgiveness from.

Donald Miller

#69. I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store.

Stephan Pastis

#70. If we don't forgive, we stay emotionally handcuffed to the person who hurt us ...

Antoinette Bosco

#71. The slope that leads toward insanity has the paradoxical distinction of being both steep and yet undetectable to the person sliding down it.

Suzanne Rindell

#72. When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don't know when you'll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#73. After the probe does its thing, the Jarada make contact: they want to talk to the Captain, and are offended that they can't immediately speak to the person in charge, which would explain why the Jarada destroyed every planet in the Dell Technical Support system.

Wil Wheaton

#74. There's a way of doing comedy that feels true to the person doing it, that doesn't feel like clown-work or silly faces and antics, but that feels real - like you're playing a real person who has real thoughts and feelings, and it's very grounded. I started to watch all comedy through that prism.

Andy Daly

#75. Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.

Norah O'Donnell

#76. Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table and pass the peas to the person next to us we see that person in a whole new way.

Alice Waters

#77. The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

Plato

#78. To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

Swami Vivekananda

#79. There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#80. Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.

Alexis Carrel

#81. I really am not going to get involved in a discussion about the legal position of the Iraq war. I am not the person to do that because I am not sufficiently impartial as a lawyer about this, because it's a matter that is of interest to the person that I am closest to in the world.

Cherie Blair

#82. Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.

Susanna Kaysen

#83. God deliberately chooses weak, suffering and unlikely candidates to get His work done, so that in the end, the glory goes to God and not to the person.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#84. Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

Norman Vincent Peale

#85. We forgive and forget just to give another chance to the person we love or think we love.

M. Howson

#86. Great rule of thumb is to never say anything behind someone's back that you wouldn't say straight to the person's face.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#87. If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving.

Randeep Hooda

#88. Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#89. The incredible tragedy of jealousy is that it does not deliver to the person possessing it anything except a vexed spirit, a nasty attitude and a silly disposition.

Lance D. Watson

#90. It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

Ivan Reitman

#91. If you carry a weapon, it is always to kill. Do not think it is to defend yourself. If you draw your weapon, never get closer than three meters to the person you want to kill,

Charles Kaiser

#92. This extremely shocking and utterly revolutionary call is the essence of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus: we are not called to simply believe certain points or observe certain practices, but ultimately to cling to the person of Christ as life itself.

David Platt

#93. On nights like this when the air is so clear, you end up saying things you ordinarily wouldn't. Without even noticing what you're doing, you open up your heart and just start talking to the person next to you - you talk as if you have no audience but the glittering stars, far overhead.

Banana Yoshimoto

#94. I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

BD Wong

#95. If you're having problems with someone on the Internet, simply block the person and move on. And if you do want to meet people from online, make sure you do your research to make sure you're talking to the person you want to be talking to.

KSI

#96. Love means giving yourself to the person you love,being willing to sacrifice everything,even your pride

Elaine Barbieri

#97. There's a lot of stress out there, and to handle it, you just need to believe in yourself; always go back to the person that you know you are, and don't let anybody tell you any different, because everyone's special and everyone's awesome.

McKayla Maroney

#98. The thing that would make me believe that hiking the Pacific Crest Trail was my way back to the person I used to be.

Cheryl Strayed

#99. But, miraculously, something of her former life remained, her last link to the person she had been before she had become so utterly alone. A part of Tariq still alive inside her, sprouting tiny arms, growing translucent hands.

Khaled Hosseini

#100. Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.

Freya Stark