Top 1200 Influential Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Nobody needs to prove to anybody what they're worthy of, just the person that they look at in the mirror. That's the only person you need to answer to.

When I was at graduate school, you wouldn't have recognised me. I was so different - and not a nice person: a grumpy, surly, upset, confused, lost person.

For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. But there are also things — harmful attitudes, superstitions, emotions — that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

The Plus Factor makes its appearance in a person's life in proportion as that person is in harmony with God and His universal laws.

If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.

The lesson that I learned is that you can't drop everything for one person. I've done that and that person has broken up with me, and I've had nothing.

Everyone wants to feel like they were the one and only person that the other person could ever fall in love with.

I usually cast myself in things because acting is how I best relate to artistic impulses. It's what I've wanted to do since I was a child, so a scene usually plays itself out in my head with me performing it. And if I cast myself that's one less person I have to pay, one less person I have to explain my vision to, one less person I have to worry about.

There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

The great thing about training/exercise is it is non-bias. It changes from person to person, but everyone can still enjoy the benefits.

It as an argument between the world of emotion versus the world of the intellect. It's the idea that you can suppress a person's mind and a person's experiences, mentally, psychologically and intellectually, but you can't completely quiet them to the point of dormancy and the emotionally life a person. You still have the heart and what the heart remembers and what the heart experiences. And even that isn't important that that comes across.

The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the brave ones, and they manage to impose their ideas on everyone else.

I don't want to sit here and disparage Paul Ryan the man, because he's a good guy. He's a moral person. He's a decent person.

A humble person is more likely to be self confident... a person with real humility knows how much they are loved.

I grew up as a fan of the original Star Trek series. When I was in middle school, I think in the 6th grade, I remember going to a book fair and finding a book called The Making of Star Trek, by Stephen Whitfield, and I grabbed it and took and home and just devoured it, over and over again. It was a really influential book. It was very nuts and bolts.

The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.

When I joined Google, it was a 1,500-person company, which I thought was huge, since I don't think of myself as a corporate person.

With Tinder and all these other things, there's always this kind of illusion with infinite choices. There's something very cool about saying, 'Oh, I actually really care about this person, and I want to commit to loving this person and being loyal to this person.' You can't get that from the kind of infinite multiple choices that are out there.

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.

I think people dream in their own way, dreams are extremely personal, even from person to person. They are completely individual.

I have never met an aggressive person who wasn’t a fearful person.

I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer's is not the person they knew. I wonder to myself - Who are they then?

People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

Part of debunking the mythology of filmmaking is that we tend to want to locate it often in one person. And it's not one person. It's a collective, and it is a collaboration.

Love listens to the other person and searches for clues on ways to serve, bless and lift up that person.

Nobody really likes to be lectured a lot. And, therefore, if you want to be an effective person, what you don't do is scold the person publicly all the time.

I grew up in a home in which loyalty to family was central to my father's outlook. Adolescent changes to my outlook (which set me against parental values) made me very critical of loyalty, reinforced by certain religious writers I found influential at that time. Harry Blamires, The Christian Mind. But I remained conflicted about loyalty.

In recent years it has become impossible to talk about man's relation to nature without referring to "ecology"...such leading scientists in this area as Rachel Carson, Barry Commoner, Eugene Odum, Paul Ehrlich and others, have become our new delphic voices...so influential has their branch of science become that our time might well be called the "Age of Ecology".

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

I'm an observer in life, not a participant. That's why I'm a documentarian who looks through a camera. I'm not a touchy-feely person; I'm not a seminar person.

A person can have the greatest idea in the world - completely different and novel - but if that person can't convince enough other people, it doesn't matter.

Before marriage, I was a very shy person with mood swings. But, now I can balance that and have become a better and stronger person.

In an era of social everything, we want to spark possibility and opportunity in the creative arts, in real life, person to person.

If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.

I would love to be friends with Kanye West, because I know he is not a dreadful person, he is a lovely person and I think he is misunderstood.

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.

What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?

For one person, organized files might be a crucial tool for creativity; another person finds inspiration in random juxtapositions.

I feel like every person who's in a long-term relationship, or who is committed to their person, goes through ups and downs.

Whatever a person's ultimate concern may be, it will have an enormous influence on everything else the person does or believes.

One person's magical thinking is another person's cynicism.

I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you.

I get to do all these crazy things in the movies. I'm a pretty chilled out person, actually... a very mellow person.

Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.

The human body is not the person. Identity is the way the brain operates; it's memories, it's sensory input and output. The mind is the person.

Everyone has dated or been with a person who is obsessed with their work, and it's immensely frustrating. You're like, "I'm right here! I'm a person! I'm interesting, too!"

No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.

If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.

The classic problem in a relationship is a person trying to control the other person. People just want to conquer somebody.

If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable.

The only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and you're still functioning, you're the luckiest person in the world.

A beautiful person is a person who is capable of being the best version of himself/herself, inside and out as often as possible.

For one cannot change, that is to say become another person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one no longer is.

I LOVE YOU SO MANY REASONS ' --- Before i met you I spent a lot of time meeting all kinds of people i had a lot of fun and learned a lot Though each person I met had great characteristics something was missing No one person had all the qualities that I had hoped a person could have- someone whose every action and thought I could respect someone who was very intelligent yet could also be fun-loving someone who was sensitive, yet virile exciting and sensuous someone who knew what they wanted out of life. a beautiful person inside and out I could not find a person like this until i met you

Revenge is a sorrow for the person who has to take it on. And the person who is rash enough to think it's going to help a situation is always wrong.

Always remember, the person we’re really working for is the person who’s restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He’s the one we want to impress.

I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.