"It takes a big person to avoid small worries."
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"The person who makes promises to everyone ultimately pleases no one."
"When the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable."
"The person is being confrontational."
"Obviously I'm very confident, not only on the golf course, when I race. I've always backed myself. I'm a very confident sort of person."
"...if you can think of meetings you've attended, you can probably recall a time - plenty of times - when the opinion of the most dynamic or talkative person prevailed to the detriment of all."
"[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing."
"The Buddha is not a person but a (state of) realization to which anyone can attain."
"It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know."
"Journalist: A person with nothing on his mind and the power to express it."
"I'm a full disclosure kind of person."
"I'm actually a pretty upbeat person outside of playing music."
"Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged."
"I don't like myself very much as a person, but I'm proud of what I create."
"There is nothing wrong with being the most important person under the sun if everybody else is just as important as you are."
"There is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning."
"I am not a particularly thick-skinned person."
"I'm a very distracted person."
"Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies."
"If your stress is related to another person, finding forgiveness - changing your thoughts and energy around that person - can lower stress."