Person Quotes

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.

Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.

If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.

So if you're a customer today, the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect the solution before you bought it is likely going to be leading the team to help you do the implementation.

I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.

The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person.

When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.