Top 1200 Materialistic Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.

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

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.

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