- People
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- 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
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
- Enlist
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a happy person! I guess I'm not as much of a pessimist as most documentary filmmakers.
- George Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate to be the one to defend George Bush, but you have to be able to disconnect the professional George Bush from the personal George Bush. I know all the anti-war folks think he is a monster, but he is still a very personable, nice person.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a bloody shame that all the video stores have gone, I'll tell you. Everything's so mechanical now. It's all so if-you-liked-this-then-you'll-like-this. There's no picking something out, or finding some brilliant person to open up new worlds for you.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
'I' is the word everyone uses to refer to themselves. On the one hand, it points to a specific person, but it's also this blank space that you can insert yourself into; it's a chute into empathy.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the 'action generation' whose motto is 'do more but feel less.'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020