
„Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
Variant: Wanting to be someone else is the waste of who you are
A collection of quotes on the topic of personality, person, personal, can.
„Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
Variant: Wanting to be someone else is the waste of who you are
„You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.“
— Warren Buffett American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist 1930
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2013/12/02/23-quotes-from-warren-buffett-on-life-and-generosity/ "23 Quotes from Warren Buffett on Life and Generosity" forbes.com (02 December 2013)
Quotes from the press
„The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
„If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
As quoted in Monk Magazine (1992-10).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print
„I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?“
— Richard Bach American spiritual writer 1936
„You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.“
— Zig Ziglar American motivational speaker 1926 - 2012
„A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.“
— Jean De La Fontaine French poet, fabulist and writer. 1621 - 1695
Source: Fables
„The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.“
— Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher 1788 - 1860
Source: Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays
„You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.“
— Wayne W. Dyer American writer 1940 - 2015
„No person has the right to rain on your dreams.“
— Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968
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„I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.“
— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
The Reason and the objective of Education Reform
„I strongly believe that, as a citizen of the world, any person has the right to learn“
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
Education for All People and Education for Life
„In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.“
— Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter 2001
— Louis Zamperini Italian-American middle distance runner 1917 - 2014
Variant: I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's healing, actually, it's real healing...
Forgiveness.
„Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
„Every person who is tempted to go astray, does not deserve punishment.“
— Ali, book Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009
On listening to an early version of Billie Jean on an iPhone
Ebony interview (2007)
„When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem.“
— Joseph Stalin General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1879 - 1953
It is mistakenly attributed to Stalin: there is no evidence that he ever said or wrote something like that.
This phrase from the novel "Children of the Arbat" (1987) by Анатолий Наумович Рыбаков (1911 — 1998). As Stalin said about the execution of military experts in Tsaritsyn in 1918: "Death solves all problems. No person and no problem. " Later, in his «Роман-воспоминание» (1997), Рыбаков wrote that the phrase Stalin "possibly from someone heard, perhaps, he came up with." This was Stalin's principle. I just, it briefly formulated."
„I'd make Liam my slave and I would make him be my (uh) personal trainer!“
— Zayn Malik British singer 1993
„To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.“
— Theodore Roosevelt American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858 - 1919
„The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.“
— Carl R. Rogers American psychologist 1902 - 1987
„A TV evening with the right person can be more erotic than sex with the wrong one. “
— Ville Valo Finnish rock musician 1976
„Scientist believe in things, not in person“
— Marie Curie French-Polish physicist and chemist 1867 - 1934
— Ted Bundy, book The Stranger Beside Me
Quoted by Bill Hagmaier. Rule, Ann (2009). The Stranger Beside Me (Paperback; updated 2009 ed.). New York: Pocket Books pages 380–96.
— Hildegard of Bingen Medieval saint, prophetise, mystic and Doctor of Church 1098 - 1179
Letter to the Monk Guibert, 1176
— Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter 2001
Source: https://www.wmagazine.com/story/billie-eilish-new-ep/
„What is most personal is most universal.“
— Carl R. Rogers American psychologist 1902 - 1987
Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
— Patañjali ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises -200 - -150 BC
As quoted by Wayne Dyer http://n-spire.com/archives/011802.html
The Mahābhāṣya
„Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.“
— B.K.S. Iyengar Indian yoga teacher and scholar 1918 - 2014
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 61
„I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.“
— Harriet Tubman African-American abolitionist and humanitarian 1820 - 1913
„I use bits and pieces of others [sic] personalities to form my own.“
— Kurt Cobain, book Journals
Source: Journals (2002), p. 95
— Jeffrey Dahmer American serial killer, cannibal and necrophile 1960 - 1994
In an interview with Stone Phillips, Dateline NBC (29 November 1994)
— Ram Dass American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now 1931 - 2019
„To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.“
— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991
„Choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.“
— Bill Gates American business magnate and philanthropist 1955
Sometimes quoted with "difficult" instead of "hard".
A similar thought was expressed by automobile executive Clarence Bleicher in 1947 (before Bill Gates was born): "if you get a tough job, one that is hard, and you haven’t got a way to make it easy, put a lazy man on it, and after 10 days he will have an easy way to do it".
Misattributed
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/02/26/lazy-job/
— John Rawls, book A Theory of Justice
Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter II, Section 14, pg. 87-88
Context: Occasionally this reflection is offered as an excuse for ignoring injustice, as if the refusal to acquiesce in injustice is on a par with being unable to accept death. The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.
Context: We may reject the contention that the ordering of institutions is always defective because the distribution of natural talents and the contingencies of social circumstance are unjust, and this injustice must inevitably carry over to human arrangements. Occasionally this reflection is offered as an excuse for ignoring injustice, as if the refusal to acquiesce in injustice is on a par with being unable to accept death. The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts. Aristocratic and caste societies are unjust because they make these contingencies the ascriptive basis for belonging to more or less enclosed and privileged social classes. The basic structure of these societies incorporates the arbitrariness found in nature. But there is no necessity for men to resign themselves to these contingencies. The social system is not an unchangeable order beyond human control but a pattern of human action. In justice as fairness men agree to avail themselves of the accidents of nature and social circumstance only when doing so is for the common benefit. The two principles are a fair way of meeting the arbitrariness of fortune; and while no doubt imperfect in other ways, the institutions which satisfy these principles are just.
„You are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.“
— Louise L. Hay American writer 1926 - 2017
„Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.“
— Marilyn vos Savant US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer 1946
— Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945
15 July 1944
(1942 - 1944)
Original: (nl) Ouders kunnen alleen raad of goede aanwijzingen meegeven, de uiteindelijke vorming van iemands karakter ligt in zijn eigen hand.
„There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.“
— William Barclay Church of Scotland minister and academic 1907 - 1978
— Freddie Mercury British singer, songwriter and record producer 1946 - 1991
"The Man Who Would Be Queen" in Melody Maker (2 May 1981) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_05-02-1981_-_Melody_Maker.
— Irena Sendler Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer 1910 - 2008
As quoted in "Holocaust heroine's survival tale" by Adam Easton in BBC News (3 March 2005) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4314145.stm
„My personality is not defined by what you can see with your eyes.“
— E.M.S Nigerian rapper, singer and record producer 1995
"Trapped"
— Eric Berne Canadian psychiatrist 1910 - 1970
Quoted in They Shoot Managers, Don't They? http://books.google.com/books?id=iXkq-lFFJpcC&lpg=PP1&dq=They%20shoot%20managers%2C%20don't%20they&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q&f=false by Terry L. Paulson, pg. 3
— Dilma Rousseff 36th President of Brazil 1947
Responding http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tiyezo1fLRs to Senator José Agripino Maia - former member of ARENA, ruling party of the military dictatorship - in a Senate hearing, May 7. He suggested that, for having lied when she was interrogated by the political police, she could also have been lying about the leak of data of Fernando Henrique Cardoso's personal expenditures.
2008
— Claude Monet French impressionist painter 1840 - 1926
in a letter to Frédéric Bazille: as cited by K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 22
1850 - 1870
— Jiddu Krishnamurti Indian spiritual philosopher 1895 - 1986
1960s, Freedom From The Known (1969)
Context: Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.
— John Williams American composer, conductor and pianist 1932
John Williams, conductor laureate, Boston Pops Orchestra, Leroy Anderson Square Dedication, Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 17, 2003.
Source: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/07.17/12-anderson.html
— NasserTone Nasser Ali Albahrani is a director, cinematographer, photographer, producer, & YouTuber, who was born on April 3, 1994,… 1994
Panorama Magazine Article (September 19, 2010)
„When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.“
— Viktor E. Frankl Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor 1905 - 1997
„One person's craziness is another person's reality.“
— Tim Burton American filmmaker 1958
Variant: One person's crazyness is another person's reality
„Maybe love is just about finding the person you can be your weird self with.“
— Matt Haig, book Reasons to Stay Alive
Variant: So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?”
“Pretty much.
Source: Reasons to Stay Alive
— Andrea Dworkin Feminist writer 1946 - 2005
Source: Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics
— Haruki Murakami, book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
The Kidney-shaped Stone that Moves Every Day (translated by Jay Rubin)
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
„Hopefully, I’ll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity.“
— Marilyn Manson American rock musician and actor 1969
As quoted in Spin (August 1996), p. 34.
1990s
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi 1906 - 1945
Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
— Murray N. Rothbard American economist of the Austrian School, libertarian political theorist, and historian 1926 - 1995
„if you learn to hate one or two persons… you'll soon hate millions of people.“
— Jerry Spinelli, book Love, Stargirl
Source: Love, Stargirl
„The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.“
— Karl Barth Swiss Protestant theologian 1886 - 1968
— Marilyn Manson American rock musician and actor 1969
Variant: I think art is the only thing that's spirtual in the world. And I refuse to be forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.
— Marco Polo Venetian explorer and merchant noted for travel to central and eastern Asia 1254 - 1324
Source: The Travels
— Susan Sontag American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933 - 2004
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
„I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.“
— Marilyn Manson American rock musician and actor 1969
Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
„The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.“
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
— Carl R. Rogers American psychologist 1902 - 1987
Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
— Arthur Rimbaud French Decadent and Symbolist poet 1854 - 1891
Source: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
„The creative person should have no other biography than his works.“
— B. Traven German novelist 1890 - 1969
Source: Quoted by Red Marriott in " Traven, B. – An Anti-Biography https://libcom.org/library/b-traven-anti-biography" (2007)
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - B. Traven / Quotes
„This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.“
— Terry Pratchett, book A Hat Full of Sky
Author's note, revised edition (1992).
The Carpet People (1971; 1992)
Source: A Hat Full of Sky
„I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.“
— Bill Murray American actor and comedian 1950
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Hungarian American psychologist 1934
Source: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience