Top 1200 Generous Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.

People always say that, like, you're a dog person or a cat person. I just love animals. I'm not a dog person or a cat person.

The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.

When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?

CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new.

You don't even know if the person you're communicating with online is actually that person. And your persona on your social media - your Facebook or Twitter - may not be the person you are in real life. So then, who is the real person? Is it somewhere in between?

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

A generous and noble spirit cannot be expected to dwell in the breasts of men who are struggling for their daily bread.

Conrad Hilton was very generous in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5,000 Gideon Bibles.

It is only as we remember and embrace His generous grace toward us that we can extend it to others.

Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.

Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.

A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.

A person who sees a problem is a human being; a person who finds a solution is visionary; and the person who goes out and does something about it is an entrepreneur.

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.

The idea that you live your life in phases - I've never bought that. I feel like I'm the same person who sat in at the draft board in 1965, I'm the same person who joined a fraternity, I'm the same person who got an MFA at Bennington, and I'm the same person who founded Weather Underground. My values are still intact.

People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture.

We've always been the most generous nation in the world when it comes to caring for those outside of our borders.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?... It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

We remember Kurt Cobain for what he was: Caring, generous, and sweet. Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.

The people I worked for before I was doing 'Vampire Diaries' were very generous to me.

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.

We now have the sweetest, kindest and most generous fans from far away places - it’s a real privilege.

Beauty draws the seer towards the person seen; it invites them to know and have confidence in that person even without knowing the person intimately.

I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people's civil rights.

You can know a person is a good person or a bad person by who they are, not by what they look like.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.

I believe that a perfect house is like a perfect person; no one really wants to be around them and everyone secretly hates them. Be the weird person. Be the interesting person, the person that sometimes says inappropriate things or laughs too loud at jokes, and have your home reflect who you are.

It doesn't really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters, I think, is how aware a person is of the options. How sad for a person to be missing out on some expression of identity, just for not knowing there are options

When I worked with various healers of one kind or another, very often what came up was that there was an "inner" person who was controlling what was going on in the life of the "outer" person, who thinks he's in control of his life. That inner person has a vested interest in keeping the person from getting well, so the healing doesn't take place.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything.

A person is not the same in his life at all times. Your consciousness is developing all the time. When I started making 'El Topo,' I was one person. When I finished that picture, I was another person.

The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.

There are journalists I share a whole history with, so I tend to be generous to these guys, but those days are over.

No matter how rich or poor you might feel, right now is the time to be generous.

Think of yourself as a role model for others-showing that you can be kind, generous, loving, and rich!

The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal. That's the person who says, 'I'm going to become this' and then begins to work toward that goal

Can you imagine doing 'Nessa Dorma' with Luciano Pavarotti the maestro? It's unbelievable. He's a very generous man.

The U.S. and Canada are two generous governments and we reach out and partner with anyone who believes in foreign aid.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

A habit for all of us to develop would be to look for something to appreciate in everyone we meet. We can all be generous with appreciation.

A person is either himself or not himself; is either rooted in his existence or is a fabrication; has either found his humanhood or is still playing with masks and roles and status symbols. And nobody is more aware of this difference (although unconsciously) than a child. Only an authentic person can evoke a good response in the core of the other person; only person is resonant to person.

Autism isn't something a person has, or a shell that a person is trapped inside. There's no normal child hidden behind the autism. Autism is a way of being. It is pervasive; it colors every experience, every sensation, perception, thought, emotion and encounter - every aspect of existence. It is not possible to separate the autism from the person – and if it were possible, the person you'd have left would not be the same person you started with.

Jesus calls us to a holiness that is positive, generous and openhearted. It's a difficult, daring challenge - do we accept it?

All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.

One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself.

No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.

Your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.

No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.