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“Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.”

Believe Persons Real Humanity Ability Imagine Maturity Believe In You

Author:Tobias Wolff

“In our democratic culture people often think it is threatening to judge another person's taste. Some are even offended by the suggestion that there is a difference between good and bad taste, or that it matters what you look at or read or listen to.”

People Thinking Looks Persons Matter Culture Differences Judging Taste Democratic Suggestions Threatening Offended Good And Bad Bad Taste

Author:Roger Scruton

“What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.”

People Knows Persons Character Might Creativity Huge Amount Details

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“We always translate the other person's language into our own language.”

Persons Language Translate

Book:The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy

Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy

“I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.”

Way Persons Doe Fans Like You Thirds Serving Living My Life I Live My Life Third Person Someone You Like

Author:Lady Gaga

“If all the qualities which a painter took from the model for his picture were really taken, no person could be painted twice.”

Ifs Persons Quality Taken Models Painter

Book:Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

“At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.”

Firsts Littles Persons Made Artist Models Sculpture Modelling

Author:Alberto Giacometti

“It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.”

Persons Able Water Prayer Sky Painting Wind Bed Each Day Being The Best Tonight Waking Dedication Barrels Best Person

Author:Morris Graves

“Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something, I think about the person who made it.”

People Thinking Persons Made Made It

Book:Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.”

Persons Grief Members Mourning Stakes Exploitation Accord Family Members Degrade Rite Deceased

Author:Anthony Kennedy

“I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people.”

People Persons Ideas Ability Involved Productions Collaboration

Author:Jeff Koons

“One of the hardest things a person who is new to the way of business thinking has to go through is the countless number of people who will say to you: "You can't do that.”

People Thinking Way Persons Numbers Hardest Hardest Thing

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“It's not being homeless that matters. It's about who you are. Keep striving and you become somebody. Quit and you also become somebody.. but not the same person.”

Persons Matter Who You Are Strive Quitting Homeless

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“It is acceptable to bring someone to tears if it explains to them in an emotional way why a product, a service, or a candidate is the right person, is the right thing to do.”

Ifs Way Persons Tears Emotional Products Things To Do Right Thing Candidates Acceptable Right Person

Author:Frank Luntz

“If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.”

Ifs Persons Circumstances Experts Reporters Maxims

Author:Joseph Lelyveld

“If you feel an aversion to a person--that is, an unexplainable feeling of dislike or distaste for him--it is the most dangerous time for a proper opinion of him, his character, or his actions. Any judgment you pass upon him at such a time is bound to be unfair.”

Ifs Feels Persons Character Feelings Action Justice Opinion Dangerous Judgment Bounds Dislike Unfair Aversion Distaste Unexplainable

Book:The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

Source: The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

“When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.”

People Looks Persons Home Effort Development Concerned Wake Up Paint Surface Facade Portraiture

Book:Art & lifestyle

Source: Art & lifestyle

“Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another person in your predicament.”

Giving Persons Space Advice Projects Psychological Contemplating Space Between Predicaments

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.”

Mind Persons Minutes Higher Mere Curiosity Simplicity Finished Impress Insensible

Book:Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc: As Applicable to Landscape Painting

Source: Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc: As Applicable to Landscape Painting

“Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.”

Persons Effort Painting Blind Desperate Abandoned Helpless Surroundings

Book:Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007

“You can't help but change a little bit, but on the inside I'm still completely the same person.”

Littles Persons Stills Helping Bits Little Bit

Author:Britney Spears

“A lover is never a completely self-reliant person viewing the world through his own eyes, but a hostage to a certain delusion.”

World Persons Self Eye Certain Lovers Delusion Hostage Self Reliant

Author:Alexander Theroux

“The courts demand that every religious person must accommodate a single atheist who might be 'offended' at the favorable mention of God's name. But no atheist can be forced to accommodate a single religious person who might be offended by the atheist's unbelief, or who wants to be part of the pluralism and diversity about which liberals regularly speak, but which is not broad enough to embrace people who believe in God.”

People Want Believe Persons Enough Might Names Speak Religious Demand Diversity Court Embrace Atheist Broads Believe In God Offended Accommodate Unbelief Pluralism Religious Person

Author:Cal Thomas

“The only person who is hurt by jealousy is you... Eliminate that word from your life... it may not make you unsuccessful selling your art, but it will destroy your happiness.”

May Persons Art Hurt Selling Jealousy Unsuccessful

Book:Mystery of Making It: Reveals the Secrets of Marketing Art-How Artist Senkarik Sold the First Piece in 1980 and has Exceeded $7 Million in Sales

Source: Mystery of Making It: Reveals the Secrets of Marketing Art-How Artist Senkarik Sold the First Piece in 1980 and has Exceeded $7 Million in Sales

“I always felt that I was as good as the next person, and I didn't care what they had.”

Persons Care Next Felt Caring

Author:Lenny Wilkens

“I think vision is highly overrated today. I think what really blesses a ministry is, if you want the power of God in your life, its humility and integrity. I'll take a person who's humble and has integrity over a person who has vision any day. A lot of people have vision just based on ego, but it's in that dependence upon God that we get His vision and develop more trust in Him.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Persons Today Vision Humility Integrity Ego Humble Bless Ministry Dependence Overrated Power Of God

Author:Rick Warren

“One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.”

Persons Ideas Problem Active Static

Author:William Hull

“It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.”

Persons Friendship Clear Good Relationship

Author:Byron Katie

“Do not be intimidated by a smart person. It is easier to debate a smart person than to argue with an idiot.”

Persons Ability Easier Smart Arguing Debate Idiot Intimidated Smart Person

Author:Randall Dale Adams

“Patience and rest are key. Knowing how your body feels. You're the only person that knows how your body feels. The way of going about it is expressing it to your trainers and your coaches so you won't damage anything else.”

Knows Way Feels Persons Body Know How Knowing Keys Your Body Coaches Damage Trainers

Author:Donovan McNabb

“Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the disciples.”

Persons Teacher Adventure Direct Disciple Gathering Apostles

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“The question has been asked, 'What is a woman?' A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman is a dreamer. A woman is a planner. A woman is a maker, and a molder. A woman is a person who makes choices. A woman builds bridges. A woman makes children and makes cars. A woman writes poetry and songs. A woman is a person who makes choices.”

Writing Children Persons Has Beens Song Choices Car Bridges Makers Dreamer Planners

Author:Eleanor Holmes Norton

“Man works primarily for his own self-respect and not for others or for profit. . . the person who is working for the sake of his own satisfaction, the money he gets in return serves merely as fuel, that is, as a symbol of reward and recognition, in the last analysis, of acceptance by ones fellowmen.”

Men Persons Self Lasts Acceptance Return Rewards Sake Profit Satisfaction Symbols Recognition Analysis Fuel Self Respect Rewards And Recognition

Book:Beyond Psychology

Source: Beyond Psychology

“No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.”

Persons Perception Program Deny Enlightened Locked Ongoing Premises Monotonous Victimization

Author:Robert Brustein

“As a matter of principle, humanity is precarious: each person can only believe what he recognizes to be true internally and, at the same time, nobody thinks or makes up his mind without already being caught up in certain relationships with others, which leads him to opt for a particular set of opinions.”

Thinking Mind Believe Persons Matter Certain Humanity Opinion Principles Particular Caught Being True Caught Up Precarious Relationships With Others

Author:Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“We esteem in the world those who do not merit our esteem, and neglect persons of true worth; but the world is like the ocean--the pearl is in its depths, the seaweed swims.”

World Persons Ocean Depth Esteem Merit Neglect Swim Pearls Seaweed True Worth

Author:George Pope Morris

“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they’re finished. The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you’re ever been. The one constant in our lives is change.”

People Thinking Life Humans Persons Life Is Change Human Beings Mistake Psychology Our Lives Progress Right Now Constant Finished Temporary Fleeting Transient Work In Progress

Author:Daniel Gilbert

“I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics. If someone has lost his moral compass and has to go to jail to find it, then I believe it will make him a much better person.”

Ifs Believe Persons Lost I Believe Pleasure Compassion Moral Seeing Wind Ethics I Believe In Jail Swings Delay Compass Better Person Moral Compass

Author:Tom DeLay

“The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.”

Persons Husband Notes Ugly Devotion Scholarship Asceticism Cuckoos Ugly Person

Author:Chanakya

“The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.”

Men Heart Persons House Poverty Fool Void

Author:Chanakya

“Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.”

Persons Humor Values Attention Economy Persuasive

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.”

Persons Emotion Economy Products Ordinary Buying Supermarkets

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.”

People Persons Character Together Literature Language Loses Decision Experiments Spots Life Decision

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“There is no truth to the rumors that we hate each other. I have no ill feeling for [Britney Spears] and vice versa. I am proud of all the achievements she has made in her career, she is a very hard-working person. I have nothing but love for her.”

Persons Made Hard Feelings Hate Careers Hard Work Proud Achievement Ill Vices Rumor Vice Versa Spears Love For Her Ill Feelings

Author:Christina Aguilera

“People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make in life. Otherwise, why aren't we with the person we were with in seventh grade?”

People Way Persons Sometimes Choices Goal Negative Intention Grades Seventh Grade

Author:Kirstie Alley

“All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person. Something in me - probably a dislike of cheap exhibitionism- stops me from approaching a project too autobiographically.”

Firsts Persons Said Character Facts Happens Behinds Talking Projects Dimensions Dislike First Person Exhibitionism

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.”

Persons Three Teach Eternity Unity Doctrine Trinity

Author:Walter Martin

“I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.”

Giving Believe Persons Form Order Shapes Harmony Meaningful Life Of Pi Book

Book:Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

“Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.”

Years Persons Education Study Ready Developing Sensitive Better Person

Book:Charles Webster Hawthorne

Source: Charles Webster Hawthorne

“I'm a very rational person but I pray every day.”

Persons Praying Rational Accurate I Pray

Author:Emmy Rossum