
“I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.”
A collection of quotes on the topic of person, personal, personality, people.
“I am a hard person to love but when I love, I love really hard.”
Source: https://www.peruinforma.com/entrevista-cultural-al-escritor-chileno-jose-baroja/
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”
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.”
“Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.”
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.
On listening to an early version of Billie Jean on an iPhone
Ebony interview (2007)
“A TV evening with the right person can be more erotic than sex with the wrong one. ”
“When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem.”
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."
“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
“I'd make Liam my slave and I would make him be my (uh) personal trainer!”
“If a person has no hope, he is truly blessed because that person has no fear of failure.”
“Choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
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/
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
“There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.”
Quoted from his first book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_and_Failure_Based_on_Reason_and_Reality, "Success and Failure Based on Reason and Reality" https://www.amazon.co.uk/SUCCESS-FAILURE-BASED-REASON-REALITY/dp/9970983903/ on Amazon, P.58 (July 2018)
“Yoga does not just change the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees.”
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 61
“If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.”
As quoted in Monk Magazine (1992-10).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print
“Scientist believe in things, not in person”
In an interview with Stone Phillips, Dateline NBC (29 November 1994)
As quoted in "I am the Champion" by Nick Ferrari in The Sun (19 July 1985) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_07-19-1985_-_The_Sun.
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
"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.
Misattributed to Meryl Streep (and widely disseminated on the Internet as of August/September 2014), this quote is allegedly a translation of a text by the author José Micard Teixeira, the original of which begins (in Portuguese): "Já não tenho paciência para algumas coisas, não porque me tenha tornado arrogante..."
Misattributed
Letter to the Monk Guibert, 1176
Source: https://www.wmagazine.com/story/billie-eilish-new-ep/
“Never let your personal desires and emotions outcompete your reasoning capacity.”
Quoted from his first book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_and_Failure_Based_on_Reason_and_Reality, "Success and Failure Based on Reason and Reality" https://www.amazon.co.uk/SUCCESS-FAILURE-BASED-REASON-REALITY/dp/9970983903/ on Amazon, P.51 (July 2018)
“What is most personal is most universal.”
Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
Source: Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics
“The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today”
As quoted by Wayne Dyer http://n-spire.com/archives/011802.html
The Mahābhāṣya
“I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.”
“I use bits and pieces of others [sic] personalities to form my own.”
Source: Journals (2002), p. 95
“I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.”
Senator Barack Obama’s speech to supporters after the Feb. 5 2018 nominating contests, as provided by Federal News Service and released in the New York Times (5 February 2008) https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/us/politics/05text-obama.html
2008
“You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.”
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
in a letter to Frédéric Bazille: as cited by K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 22
1850 - 1870
Pointing, that he supports no terrorism. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1927280,00.html
“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.”
“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”
“Hopefully, I’ll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity.”
As quoted in Spin (August 1996), p. 34.
1990s
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
Variant: And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.
Source: Les Misérables
“To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.”
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.
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.
“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”
Source: The Travels
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“You are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.”
Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
“Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.”
“This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.”
Author's note, revised edition (1992).
The Carpet People (1971; 1992)
Source: A Hat Full of Sky
“In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.”
Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty
On making "Sweeney Todd" while pregnant; The Daily Mirror (London); Jan 25, 2008; John Hiscock; p. 15
Said to Moon Jae-in during the April 2018 inter-Korean summit according to a South Korean government spokesman, as quoted in Slate https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/kim-jong-un-says-north-korea-will-abandon-nuclear-program-if-u-s-pledges-not-to-invade.html
Interview: Bill Skarsgård http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/bill-skarsgard-1#_ (June 5, 2017)
From 1999 interview.
Noted in the October 2003 BBC News profile of Ebadi. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3181992.stm (retrieved Oct. 15, 2008)