Lewis Hine Quotes

We are all a unique person with everyone we meet.

Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.

Like people, trees are all individuals.

I think there are very few people who have a real style, a real personality, and real beauty.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

… people never become a mass, they remain entities, and so you are able to feel human suffering and make others feel it because it is represented to you by individuals

I love people. And what I love about people is that everyone is unique.

I need to recognise that everyone is an individual and that the key to a good relationship is to recognise that. This does theme to be a theme in my stand-up as well as my writing!

I didnt get arrested to show off my wild character. People say its a gimmick for all five of us to be different. Thats ridiculous.

I really appreciate people who have their own thing going on and stick to it - super authentic. The people who wear something and you're just like "oh, it looks so good!" it's because it's them. They're not trying to be anything.

Life works best when we think of people as people.

It's a hard thing to explain to other people because it sounds very superficial and nepotistic, but doing the interview is actually a very deep, dream-fulfilling aspect of relationship.

You don't have to treat people differently. You may be living a different lifestyle, but the person living that different lifestyle still can relate to anybody and have the same amazing personality of the guy from North Philly.

My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.

When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.

I don't look at people and see color and race. I see inside.

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

I suspect I have probably disagreed with him more than with any other justice, that we have not joined each other’s opinions more than anybody else. And yet Justice [Clarence] Thomas is the one justice in the building that literally knows every employee’s name. Every one of them. And not only does he know their names, he remembers their families’ names and histories. He’s the first one who will go up to someone, when you’re walking with him, and say, “Is your son OK? How’s your daughter doing in college?” He’s the first one that when my stepfather died sent me flowers in Florida. He is a man who keeps cares deeply about the court as an institution, about the people who work there, but about people. . . . You really can’t begin to understand an adversary unless you step away from looking at their views as motivated in bad faith, but until you can look at their views and think about what the human reaction is that’s motivating those views.

People are flawed. I like peaking into their flaws. The way to humanize them is not to play them in any general way, but to make them very specific. If you make them specific, they have hopes and dreams and loves and vulnerabilities and quirks and you get to know them and you get to appreciate them.

Very often the characters people respond to best have little parts of reality they can relate to.

There's no way Ryan Giggs is another George Best. He's another Ryan Giggs

the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.