Best Other Person Quotations
673 Other Person quotes by 464 unique authors
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Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had. The U.S.…
— Glenn Greenwald
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I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South,
— Strom Thurmond
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On the basis of the eternal will of God we have to think of EVERY HUMAN BEING, even the oddest, most villainous or miserable, as…
— Karl Barth
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There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so. One must simply…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
— Bell Hooks
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If we become skilled in giving ourselves empathy, we often experience in just a few seconds a natural release of energy which then enables us…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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What evidence is there that we've adequately empathized with the other person? First, when an individual realizes that everything going on within has received full…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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In empathy, you don't speak at all. You speak with the eyes. You speak with your body. If you say any words at all, it's…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Empathy occurs when we suspend our single-minded focus of attention and instead adopt a double-minded foucus of attention. When our attention lapses into single focus,…
— Simon Baron-Cohen
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Listening is a very deep practice. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen especially to people we think…
— Nhat Hanh
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The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth:…
— Rajneesh
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Don't ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person.
— John Coltrane
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Listening is the oldest and perhaps the most powerful tool of healing. It is often through the quality of our listening and not the wisdom…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to…
— James M. Barrie
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If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Use the words "I feel because I" to remind us that what we feel it isn't because of what the other person did, but because…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do? Second: What do…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian…
— J I Packer
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The oppposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual oppposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a…
— Amish Tripathi
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I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did…
— Edwin M. Stanton
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No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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We’ve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We’ve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. We’ve got thirty…
— Caryl Churchill
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When dealing with a difficult person, all that matters from a spiritual standpoint is how you react and treat the person. It's not about getting…
— Doreen Virtue
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If something doesn't turn out as planned, you will ask yourself, 'How did I create that? What was I thinking? What were my beliefs? What…
— Jack Canfield
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This is the real and the only reason for friendship: to provide a mirror so the other person can contemplate his image from the past,…
— Milan Kundera
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