#person

In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me. Perhaps these pages are more particularly addressed to poor students. As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them. I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#first #myself #person #self #walden

If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#behavior #improvement #medication #obvious #period

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like. ↗

— Amy Grant

#anybody #ever #given #gone #hard

Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people. ↗

— Amy Grant

#come #contact #day-to-day #does #entitled

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. ↗

— Graham Greene

#another #any #bearing #condemned #courage

I think it's an interesting thing to watch when a person is trying to keep it together and then ultimately when they do lose it a little bit. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#i #i think #interesting #interesting thing #keep

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#conversation #forum #hold #limited #limited number

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'? ↗

— Dick Gregory

#british #business #business person #chairman #entertainers

You have to understand that once an indictment has been signed, all countries that are signature to the U.N. charter will hand a person straight over. You don't have to go through the normal extradition process. ↗

— Tony Greig

#charter #countries #go #hand #indictment

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#mature #person #relationships