#person

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality. ↗

— Benjamin Jowett

#cost #diminution #personality #rewards #society

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#childhood #clearly #crashing #designed #freeway

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was. ↗

— Peabo Bryson

#american #american history #aretha #aretha franklin #every

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

#good #love #love you #other #person

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer. ↗

— Deborah Bull

#dancer #dancers #just #lives #mind

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons. ↗

— James MacGregor Burns

#leaders #life #like #most #nor

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#books #carefully #fine #god #learn

The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed. ↗

— Ken Burns

#being #i #interview #interviewed #larger

'Blues Clues' has been incredibly good to me, and I've been working so hard on it for so long that I take it very personally. I wouldn't want to do anything to jeopardize what so many kids love. So there's a lot of responsibility there. ↗

— Steve Burns

#been #blues #clues #good #hard

I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off. ↗

— Peter Farrelly

#bigger #creepy #date #girl #her