“I used to do impressions of all the mothers in the neighborhood. I’d get them rolling with laughter. But sometimes – and this is a terrible thing to do to a kid – my father would literally say, 'Stop! You’re going on too long. Shorten it up! Make it interesting!' In order to get my own parents’ atte…”— Howard Stern, rollingstone.com
“First impressions last. Start behind the eight ball and you'll never get in front.”— Aaron Korsh, Harvey Specter, Gabriel Macht, imdb.com
“Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.”— John Green, amazon.com
“It’s not fair. People claim to know you through the things you’ve done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself.”— Hannah Kent, amazon.com
“It’s so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then.”— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com
“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.”— Seneca, alexrovira.com
“I never thought of her as a thing to be considered by daylight. The many times I had seen her, none had been in the day. I expected her like I expected the moon.”— John Fante, amazon.com
“I think a lot of times we don’t pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.”— Amy Adams, chron.com
“If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.”— Abraham Lincoln, amazon.com
“Be aware of opponents' sword, Yet not look at the opponents' swords at all. This takes work.”— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com
“You take things you don't control and define them as 'good' or 'bad.' And so of course when the 'bad' things happen, or the 'good' ones don't, you blame the gods and feel hatred for the people responsible–or those you decide to make responsible. Much of our bad behavior stems from trying to applying…”— Marcus Aurelius, amazon.com