Quotes of: Personal-ambitions Keyword

The angry person is acutely sensitive to all they are owed by the world, and blind to all they have received

Philosophy for Life: And Other Dangerous Situations

Personally I know only one person who wrote about utopia. Afterwards he was executed. I suppose it's not my genre.

Pavilion of Thoughts

Maybe Duke was just the kind of person you don’t keep in your life, but the kind of person that changes your life forever.

Patch Up

It's better to be one who is told to wait than one who waits to be told.

QBQ! the Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life

There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.

The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animals Origins of Property and Nations

Great changes in our society are always inspired and set in motion by one person. Be that person today.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Every time we exterminate a predator, we are in a sense creating a new predator.

The Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays

Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.

The Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays

The successful person and the unsuccessful person are looking at the same world; the difference between them is what they see.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense.

Venus in Arms

An essential aspect of self-support is to remind yourself that success is not measurable, but a matter of feeling.

The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression

Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.

A Woman Of Independent Means

The person who knows Christ best is the person who will pray best.

What Happens When I Pray

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.

The Winter Sea

Each of us has the power to take action, to light a fire and be the ignition for others.

Walk in Their Shoes: Can One Person Change the World?

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

The World of Yesterday

The death of a young person for no reason is an apocalypse.

Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

Love is what freed me from the cell of my selfishness.

Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

We can achieve the fullest measure of life by living it for others.

Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

No key, no tool, no resource is more liberating than love.

Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.

Elizabeth Pena