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character interesting people
... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance. Charles Dickens
character past men
As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.
character eye names
If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.
character interesting long
"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
character boys thinking
"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."
character half tongue
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. Charles Caleb Colton
character abuse criticism
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
character men support
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
character suffering peculiar
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.
ego chiefs results
Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.
ego monsters fascinating
The ego is a fascinating monster. Alanis Morissette
ego hallucinations tests
The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests. Alan Watts
ego ego-trip
The biggest ego trip going is getting rid of your ego
ego life-is inches
To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having desperately fallen in love with an inch.
ego skins hallucinations
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
ego kind bigs
The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued. Alan Ball
ego unmasking strategy
What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy. Chogyam Trungpa
ego use spirituality
The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.
perception world dull
We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away. Alan Moore
perception revolution
The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception. David Icke
perception movement may
I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. David Hume
perception division credit
Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not. David Dreman
perception film
I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It's more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor. Benedict Cumberbatch
perception metaphorical rooted
All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought. Denis Leary
perception actors common
It is a common perception that actors don’t get along. Deepika Padukone
perception
The perception is that they take too long and are too expensive. Peter Andersen
perception politics sale
The perception is that politics is for sale and politicians are for sale.