Quotes of: Personalities Keyword

If there is a soul, then it is a mistake to think that it is given to us completely created. It is created right here for a lifetime. Life is nothing but a long, painful process of creation.

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

The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.

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

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 16: Letters and Personal Writings

With a person I respect, I wash my hands before I shake their hand. With a person I don’t respect, I wash my hands after I shake their hand.

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You

Like small seeds, small deeds can make a big difference.

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

When we're constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks.

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

Abundance in life is achieved only when we tear down walls and fill our lives with light.

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

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

I haven't personally experienced bullying, but when I was in high school, I had a best friend who became a bully. I took a stand and took it upon myself to separate from her. I couldn't be associated with her because it wasn't the type of person I wa...

Amber Riley

One of the best ways to change is to act as if you are the person you want to become. When you behave as if you are a different person, you change on a very basic level - even your physiology changes. When actors and actresses perform, their body che...

Bernie Siegel

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, yo...

Luke Evans

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say it's absolutely idiotic. I mean, there's no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of w...

Paul Auster

The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a pers...

Sergei Bubka

Social media is just a platform. Twitter is a very simple and immediate broadcast platform. Facebook is a very personal, when it comes to friends and when it comes to fan pages, a little bit less but still somewhat personal way to communicate.

Mark Cuban

If just one person, one child who is made to feel isolated, looks at me and sees that it is okay to be your own person and walk down your own path, then everything I have ever gone through will be worth it.

Johnny Weir

Always maintain the attitude of a student. When a person thinks they have finished learning, that is when bitterness and disappointment can set in, as that person will wake up everyday wondering when someone is going to throw a parade in their honour...

Nick Offerman

People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

Rowan Atkinson

They say if you're a better person today than you were yesterday you're well on the road to perfection. So I figure if I'm a real snot today, tomorrow I should make huge progress.

Richelle E. Goodrich