A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.
A human being is a deciding being.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.
Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.
Behavior is mutable. It changes from place to place. It's like accents, dialect - it varies from one area to another. But there are universal truths about what it means to be a human being. All the other stuff is like applique. Learning that was interesting to me and probably useful for becoming an actor.
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