With People Quotes
The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts.
sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.
Paradoxically, in the field being a woman actually helps you: people often feel more comfortable talking to women, which is key in documentaries.
Documentaries are unpredictable. You never know what will turn up, and the drama occurs in real time. But if you listen to people, a narrative always emerges.
I always felt that's why people buy records anyhow is because they get that vicarious excitement and thrill that they don't get unless they buy your record.
I'm one of the old crabby types and younger people are perfectly happy with everything that goes on.
If you're a positive person, you're an automatic motivator. You can get people to do things you don't think they're capable of.
I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.
I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.
Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.
People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.
Is this what it's like to get close to other people--you do something insane together and then you have to share everything even if you don't really want to?
People think they need to be at a ski-inski-out resort, but the reality is it's not such a big deal to jump on a shuttle.
Gas prices - it is $6 a gallon here. People in L.A. are furious. You can't tell, of course, because of the Botox.
Much of television has been homogenized in the desire to avoid annoying or upsetting people.
A lot of people in their 30's get nostalgic for their teen years. Then they get jobs in TV, become bitter and jaded and prematurely old. Then they turn their nostalgia into great television.
Love at first sight is not rare, in fact it is extremely common, it happens to some people a few times a year. The feeling of what if when meeting the eyes of a stranger can be love unrecognized.
A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.
It's tricky turning a book into a movie. Sometimes people love the book so much that no adaptation lives up to what they imagined. You can avoid that disappointment by never, ever reading books.
People are saying that Anderson Cooper could be the new Oprah. And then these people are struck by lightning.
Mark Zuckerberg was named Time's Person of the Year. I'm sorry if you don't recognize the name. A magazine is something people used to read.
These days, young people watch TV on smartphones and computers. Young people with an actual TV set are harder to find than a picture of Anthony Weiner with his clothes on.
Dell Computers announced they're releasing a competitor for the iPad. Now it is, in fact, a great alternative for people who already have an iPad, but are fed up with it working all the time.
It's very interesting to know what people are doing while you're working on late-night television.
Even though it's warm here in L.A., people still have to wear layers - at least until their plastic surgery heals.
I think holidays create so much pressure because people feel they should be having a good time. But you shouldn't.
If you watch cooking shows on cable, they have lots of British people. Because when you think good cooking, you immediately think Britain.
People think of songwriting as a very personal thing: A guy gets up there with an acoustic guitar and he sings his heart out, bares his soul.
One of the things is my process requires a lot of repetition. I can probably drive people crazy because I'm interested in playing a song twenty times in a row.
Some people will totally get restless, since you can make demos pretty easy. It's not unreasonable for someone to say, "All right, can you just record this and go home and work on it?"
I think when you are doing a song you're trying to give people enough details that they connect.
My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.
You can think of a number of bands where the first record is by far their biggest record. And that must be hard for people to recapture. Hard for people to live with.
I don't really pursue writing songs for other people. I guess one of the things I always think about is a good line in a song should be something I can hear myself saying.
A conversation with you is a different thing than projecting to a couple hundred people. It's bigger and more animated and it's on a bigger scope, but still in the heart, it's honestly me.
Because my life was changed by God's Word, I love every organization that helps people know him through his Word.
As we're growing closer to God, I ask people to decide when God wants them to stay planted exactly where they are.
I think that you're always going to have some people who are negative or view you in a certain way.
I always tell people I romanticize about doing something simple, like doing radio in northern California.
I pride myself on being down-to-earth. I’m from the Midwest. People who go into show business are screwed up. I romanticized about having a serene life.
My brother asked me once, 'Are you a misanthrope?' And I said, 'No, I just find people irritating.'