For The People Quotes

We should focus on what people get done, not on how many hours or days worked. Just as we don't have a nine-to-five policy, we don't need a vacation policy.

I am a believer in trying to treat people properly and trying to respond and making sure that I find the time to be courteous.

What matters is working with a few close friends, people you respect, knowing that if times did turn bad these people would hold together.

The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads, hospitals and schools.

If you get your face and your name out there enough, people will start to recognize you.

When you are ready to make your first hires, look for people who understand your passion, want to add to your ideas and can envision ways to make improvements.

The important thing is that you've got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people.

I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

I don't shout people down. I argue people down, perhaps.

There is a tendency for people to say evolution is only a theory. That is inappropriate.

I'll always put policy ahead of politics and I think people expect that. They're sick of the politics getting in the way of decent outcomes for people.

Sharon Stone. She is one of the most dedicated people I know, but also highly unedited.

I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all.

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.

Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.

Great companies make meaning. A company has a name, but its people give it meaning.

It’s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They don’t feel the need to eliminate anybody.

People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?

I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can!

Communism: Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty

The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.

Wisdom's daughter walks alone. That didn't just mean without other people, Annabeth realized. It meant without any special powers.

So, you wrecked Alcatraz Island, made Mount St. Helens explode, and displaced half a million people, but at least you're safe." "Yep, that pretty much covers it.

I know that you've got to watch how you spend all the dollars. That's not the easiest thing to do. That's not what people think is the most fun thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.

I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

People are here to serve. We cannot waste potential.

The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so.

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.

I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me.

I want people to think they can't die until they see me play.

Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.

...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.

Nobody is really happy with what's on their head. People with straight hair want curly, people with curly want straight, and bald people want everyone to be blind.

My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.

Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.

It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.

Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life.

I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.

Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up.

I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.

It is sad when two people turn from the paths they’re traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.