- Nov 07, 2020
Person Quotes
On character, focus and what makes a person who they are.
These quotes describe personal identity in different lights: spirituality that exists outside organized religion, competitiveness aimed inward rather than at others, and the wide or narrow focus people bring to their goals. For more, see our I Am quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suppose you like someone very much. Then, by a familiar halo effect, you will also be prone to believe many good things about that person - you will be biased in their favor. Most of us like ourselves very much, and that suffices to explain self-assessments that are biased in a particular direction.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.
- Nov 07, 2020
The beauty of any artwork is that it becomes the person that's watching it: What do you take out of it?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are corporate environments where a person has dedicated their life to working hard, and then they're fired with a security person escorting them out the door. I find that so demeaning and disrespectful.
- Clowns
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
- Data
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and then come to the house. There were no cell phones or anything to get results phoned in early.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automatic charisma and was a very verbal person, he always played those more silent characters and played within the scene and never overacted.
- Then
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer to say that I am a beautiful person. But the addict is a horrible person.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020