Rare Person Quotes

• Es raro el que quiere oír lo que no quiere oír.

  Dick Cavett

  Listening To Others, Want, Favourite

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• Rara es la persona que sigue interesándose por los nuevos avances cuando es adulta. Posiblemente exista una correlación con la inteligencia. En cualquier caso, hay que ser bastante inteligente para seguir aprendiendo y cambiando de actitud con la edad.

  Keith Henson

  Attitude, Adults, Cases

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• La persona normal perfecta es rara en nuestra civilización.

  Karen Horney

  Divertido, Vida, Ingenioso

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• It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path of purpose and meaning unless he or she is motivated by a crisis. Most often we require the failure of some system of power that we rely on before we take action.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Power, Survival

  Caroline Myss (2009). “Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason”, p.67, Hay House, Inc

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• To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Knowledge, Humility, People

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• It's impressive that a man [Dalai Lama], on the day after his Nobel Prize was announced, in October, 1989, said to me, "I really wonder if my efforts are enough?" Most of us, if we just won the Nobel Prize, would think this is vindication, or at last there's a chance for Tibet. He's the rare person who thinks, as a Buddha would, "I don't know if I've done enough, I don't know if I will do enough."

  Pico Iyer

  Men, Thinking, Effort

  Entrevista con Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. 26 de abril de 2008.

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• I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Writing, Novelists, Fiction

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• Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that

  Randy Pausch

  Waiting, Reason, Heard

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• In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to meet.

  Isak Dinesen

  Growth, Hot, Giants

  Isak Dinesen (1987). "Memorias de África", Crown Pub

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