Persons Quotes - Page 40

• The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

  Clarence Day

  Self, Justice, Diversity

  Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”

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• Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

  Antonia Fraser

  Justice, Diversity, Culture

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• Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Self, Justice, Diversity

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.53, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Dark, Rocks, White

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.154, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

  George Orwell

  Home, Sweat, Justice

  The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) ch. 2

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• Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.

  B. F. Skinner

  Justice, Doe, Behavior

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• A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Clever, Pride, One Liner

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.327, Penguin

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• There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.

  David McCullough

  Inspirational, Congratulations

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• Whatever you may be missing right now - a person, a place, a feeling, maybe you are injured and missing running - whatever it is, have peace and take heart - remember that any goodbye makes room for a hello.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Life, Happy, Goodbye

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• I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body, a representation, to put it outside himself. A need to convert inner torment into some outward tangible wound that all could see. It was almost as though suicide were a last-ditch effort at exorcism, in which the person sacrificed his life in order that the devil inside might die.

  Phillip Lopate

  Suicide, Pain, Suicidal

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• for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we may be able to engage.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, May, Able

  Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, Joseph Carrington Cabell (1856). “Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell”, p.389

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• I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely ever met a person more fearless and courageous than my father ... The thing that I admire most about my dad is his genuine Christian character. He is a man of real integrity, deeply committed to moral and ethical principles. He is conscientious in all of his undertakings ... If I had a problem I could always call Daddy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Fathers Day, Strong

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• The most unpresentable persons are generally the most interesting.

  Teresa de la Parra

  Acceptance, Interesting, Tolerance

  Teresa de la Parra (1959). “Mama Blanca's Souvenirs”

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• You are allowed to do this - don't worry about the rules, don't worry about getting into trouble, your job is to take care of the customer. Your job is to make the person leave happy.

  John E. Pepper, Jr.

  Jobs, Educational, Worry

  "John Pepper of Boloco: Acting On The Customer’s Voice". Interview with Brent Leary, smallbiztrends.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Real, Educational, Ideas

  "Online Extra: Q&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte". Interview with Stephen Baker, www.bloomberg.com. June 21, 2004.

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• No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that person to be absolutely incompetent, assuming a posture of disdain from my own position of false superiority.

  Paulo Freire

  Educational, Philosophy, Self

  Paulo Freire (1998). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.51, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.

  Patrick Rafter

  Tennis, Motivational Tennis

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for

  Al Capone

  Kindness, Badass, Bad Ass

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• Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Society, Foolish, Young

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• The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

  Walter Lippmann

  Errors, Order, Society

  Walter Lippmann (1959). “The Public Philosophy”

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• We only have one person to blame, and that's each other.

  Barry Beck

  Hockey, Blame

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• The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ... The fundamental thing you have to do is turn off your BlackBerry, close your laptop, end your daydream and pay full attention to the person.

  Daniel Goleman

  Motivation, Real, Inspiration

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• Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Educational, War, Independent

  1964 UnderstandingMedia, ch.33.

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• In meditation, once you are gone in, you are gone in. Then, even when you resurrect you are a totally different person. The old personality is nowhere to be found. You have to start your life again from abc. You have to learn everything with fresh eyes, with a totally new heart. That's why meditation creates fear.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Eye, Found You

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• There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for a soldier who returns after fleeing, and who valiantly pursues the enemy, than for one who never turned back, but who never acted valiantly either. A farmer has greater love for land which bears fruitfully, after he has cleared it of thorns, than for land which never had thorns but which never yielded a fruitful harvest.

  Pope Gregory I

  Land, Joy, Leader

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