Top 1200 Influential Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

With movies, they have a certain person or style that they're looking for. It's not that they don't like you, but maybe you're not the person that's right for their movie. That happens a lot.

The three greatest people in my life as a young person were white. I'm not a person that really deals in color.

A journal is a very personal thing. As far as possible, to write this sort of book you need to know and feel your character as a person and then put yourself into that person's mind, place and time. Trying to stay in that person, place and time is a challenge when surrounded by this very different world of the 21st century.

I don't think I am that person who can just text people for the heck of work. I should be invested in that person otherwise I won't.

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

There's no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

I'm not a religious person; I'm more of a spiritual person, so I follow the rules of the Bible that coordinate with and connect with the Hebrew culture.

What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy. Such a person is so joy-giving, so humorous, and never degrading anyone.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. If the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of.

The world doesn't throw a billion dollars at a person because the person wants it or works so hard they feel they deserve it.

It is important to know how influential people think and perceive their countrymen, let's say, especially when you are talking about people in power. I think it can be very revealing how they regard themselves and their relationship or their responsibility to their countrymen. That is vital for us all to know and in order to be able to judge them and evaluate them.

I'm a much healthier person through my relationship with my husband. I've become a more fulfilled person - it's a great partnership.

We all fall in love with the idea of a person, and then as time goes on we either accommodate ourselves to the real person or we don't.

Motivation levels differ person to person, as does the time since failing new year resolutions.

Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between that person and death knows this, as does whoever has fallen into the catastrophe of a deep depression, anyone who has loved a woman to the dregs, anyone who has beaten others bloody or ever come up behind another person with muscles trembling. "Losing one's head," language calls it. Emotional experience is, in itself, poor in qualities; qualities are brought to it by the person who has the experience.

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

I love the creating part of taking on a character. It is fun to be another person and create what it would be like to be that person.

And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.

In many ways, love seems to be totally divorced from economics. But then you realize - well, the stakes are high. This is something that matters to us. We're dealing with scarcity. I mean, if you're dating one person, at the very least, you don't have as much time to date another person. And you may well find that you can only date one person at a time.

I had no balance in my life. I was this one person onstage and this person offstage, who really didn't know much about living.

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.

I sometimes wonder what this person or that person might be like in bed.

A promiscuous person is a person who is getting more sex than you are.

When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.

It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can't talk. Only, I know that I'm that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium. To me, though, I'm just me. An ordinary kid.

The domestic power structure - how power is exercised in the United States, for instance - greatly influences the structure of international institutions. So, for example, the Clinton administration was very influential in shaping the WTO treaty, and, because of the way the US domestic political system works, this meant that corporations could use the US government to wield a huge influence.

A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.

Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

I certainly think that my music is a response to my experience as a person who doesn't identify as straight, as a person who grew up American.

You start a project as a young person and then at the end you are another person. You are ready to go for your pension.

By definition, the person who learns enough to become the nominee is almost certainly the best person for the general election.

It's true that charisma can make a person stand out for a moment, but character sets a person apart for a lifetime.

It's the trials and tribulations that really test a person, and coming through those difficulties is what shapes a person's character.

At the end of the day, you're not defined, I don't believe, by your financial means. That doesn't make you a better person or a smarter person.

While you're busy looking for the perfect person, you'll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.

I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor.

Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.

Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are

When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.

I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.

I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

When I was a kid, we used to play this thing called 'the writing game' with our father. My brother and I would play it - where first person writes a sentence, and the second person writes a sentence, and the third person writes a sentence, and so on until you get bored and have to go to bed.

I'm not an outgoing person. Compared to an average person, I am quite skeptical and pessimistic. This is different from being nervous.

Because I was drafted high, I got the reputation of being conceited, like I'm too good for this person or that person.

I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is. ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.

The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.

Liberation does not concern the person, for liberation is freedom from the person. Basically the disciple and teacher are identical. Both are the timeless axis of all action and preception. The only difference is that one 'knows' himself for what he is while the other does not. The idea of being a person, an ego, is nothing other than an image held together by memory.

A lot of technological capital has to be absorbed person-to-person, and that happens more quickly if countries are economically integrated.

Inside every fat person there's a thin person looking to get out - They've just eaten them.

When a person understands what sort of existence a human being is, and what exactly the "self" is, that person has been liberated forever.