P Quotes
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“Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results. In Germany its defects are evident enough; people are made to travel in carriages which our main lines would not think of using, and with a lack of conveniences which with us would provoke a revolt; but the most amazing thing about this administration in Russia is to see how, after all this vast expenditure, the whole atmosphere of the country seems to paralyze energy.”
Source: AUTOBIOGRAPHY of ANDREW DICKSON WHITE volume 1
“Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.”
Source: Aphorisms
“Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to greater effort.”
“Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.”
“Persons who have cleansed themselves of any transgression and who have shown their ability to deal with homosexual inclinations and put them in the background, and feel a great attraction for a daughter of God and therefore desire to enter marriage and have children and enjoy the blessings of eternity - that's a situation when marriage would be appropriate.”
“Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.”
“Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay themselves open to bitter disappointments and frustrations.”
“Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing.”
“Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously and continuously a plan for self-development and growth.”
Source: The Magic Of Thinking Big
“Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain: Reader's Edition
“Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.”
Source: Political essays, with sketches of public characters ...
“Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am a beautiful woman,' nevertheless seem to think it wholly within the bounds of good taste to announce that they are Christians!”
“Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.”
“Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.”
Source: Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance by Samuel Smiles
“Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Persons, especially salaried people who schedule their spare time, to provide for home study (or attend specialized short courses, seminars or training) seldom remain at the bottom very long. Their action opens the way for the upward climb, removes many obstacles from their path, and gains the friendly interest of those who have the power to put them in the way of opportunity”
“persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science…
Coining “Dismal Science” as a nickname for Political Economy”
“Perspective - Use It or Lose It.”
“Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.”
“Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.”
“Perspective and perseverance are carved by time and constructed by wisdom.”
“Perspective basically guarantees that there’s no such thing as a pure emotion. Every emotion is based on how sucky (or not) something is in relation to something else that has already happened. I realized that Hy and Marcus and my ankle wouldn’t be so huge if I had experienced a Hiroshima-size disaster.It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me will just hurry up and happen already. That way I could live the rest of my life in bliss, if only because I
know how much worse things could be.”
Source: Sloppy Firsts
“Perspective can redefine everything you are and at the same time, refine everything you will become. Accept it, as it has taken you, have faith in fate.”
“Perspective changes when you smile.”
“Perspective-changing events can have many parts. One part can be a tense, laughter-filled promise. Another part can have no laughter at all.”
“Perspective determines whether you succeed or succumb to setbacks.”
“Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices.”
“Perspective
If you see the world with the vision of love . You will find everything so beautiful and meaningful.”
“Perspective ignites passion.”
“Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.”
Source: Georges Braque
“Perspective is a gift nowadays.”
“Perspective is a god damn son of a bitch.”
Source: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
“Perspective is a kind of mental sunblock that, provided we apply it properly, prevents us from getting burned by past mistakes.”
“Perspective is a law of optics... The Chinese did not have a system like it. Indeed, it is said they rejected the idea of the vanishing point in the eleventh century, because it meant the viewer was not there, indeed, had no movement, therefore was not alive.”
“Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed.”
“Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is near, and large that which is small.”
Source: Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)
“Perspective is an Art Mathematical which demonstrates the manner and properties of all radiations direct, broken and reflected.”
“Perspective is as simple as answering this question: If I had 5 months to live would I experience this problem differently?”
“Perspective is critical to success. Your mind-set is more ingrained than you realize.”
Source: Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
“Perspective is everything in crypto. Sometimes, the only difference between despair and opportunity is the angle you’re looking from. Welcome to Inverse Alt Season.”
Source: Mastering the Crypto World: Understanding and Trading Cryptocurrencies for Profits
“Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.”
“Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.”
Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete
“Perspective is so interesting. The smallest thing becomes pleasurable when troubles are monumental.”
Source: Unliving the Dream
“Perspective is the cure for depression.”
“Perspective is the enemy of long-lost love.”
“perspective is the lens through which we view the world, shaping our reality and coloring our experiences.”
“Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.”
“Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.”
“Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.”
Source: Leonardo da Vinci's advice to artists