With People Quotes

Like I say, it depends on how you do rock-'n'-roll. If you do it right then I think people will appreciate it for what it is.

In Europe they're more calm, more reserved. Here, in the States, people are more wild, a little more open. I guess it takes a lot to impress those people up there in Europe. Especially in London.

I'm just attracted to human behavior and how people sometimes never would interact with one another or be in each other's sphere of awareness.

Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.

All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.

Influence means power, and I don't want that. Whatever happens, here we do our own thing and put it out there for people to take or leave. We're not doing anything to influence them.

Daniel Radcliffe told me once that you should always keep the people around you that you know are going to tell you the truth.

I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

Sometimes I am kind of the opposite of my character. But that's the thing about acting, you get to play people who are not like you at all.

Spend 5 minutes breathing in, cherishing yourself; and, breathing out cherishing others. If you think about people you have difficulty cherishing, extend your cherishing to them anyway.

We need to teach people that the environment has a direct bearing on our own benefit.

People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself

Your motivation should be sincere and your life should be of benefit to some people. That is the main thing. Don't care after my death.

In pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!

Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction.

It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose some money, yet when they waste the precious moments of their lives they do not have the slightest feeling of repentance.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

During the day extend that attitude to everyone you meet. Practice cherishing the "simplest" person (clerks, attendants, etc) or people you dislike.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

I don't want to convert people to Buddhism - all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good.

Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance.

We have to adopt a wider perspective, and always find common things between the people of north, east, south, and west. Conflict comes from the basis of differencs.

A mind wishing to benefit other people and other sentient beings is the very basis of peace and happiness.

I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

Artists have the responsibility to serve humanity give people hope.

Perhaps our teachings seem less religious and more technical, like psychology, so they are easier for secular people to use.

I make small mistakes every day. But major mistakes? It doesn't seem so. I've examined my service to the Tibetan people and to humanity, and I've done as much as I can in my life.

Spiritually, yes, now many people knows Tibetans in spiritual field are very, very advanced but in material field is very, very backward.

Rulers come and go. It's the people who are the real rulers of the country.

Getting up in front and talking to the people who build my cars is the worst. I get so damn nervous.

One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

I think that by the middle of this century people will still be eating meat (though less), and their meat will mostly be produced in factories through synthetic processes, cell cultures, and so on.

On my reading of history people who want to bring us the best are usually the people we ought to be afraid of.

The Enlightenment dream is a good one. The idea that people should rationally appreciate their place in nature, assess threats and possibilities, and regulate their behavior in response is inspiring.

It is probably true that the economic benefits of being in the EU are a net positive to the UK, but a large number of people do not share in these benefits and the result is increasing inequality.

In the last few centuries we've managed to reduce how much we kill each other, we've learned some basic lessons about public health, and life is relatively good for more people than ever before.

When I first started studying climate change back in the 1980s, I was struck by how difficult it was be for people to understand this issue.

Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people to act on them.

I think people found out I'm just like anybody else. I've got problems, too.

I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

I've been lucky to have a lot of opportunities to help people.

AIDS was one of those diseases that a lot of people tried to claim ownership over, and especially as someone who was, fortunately never HIV positive, I wanted to avoid any appearance of doing that.

It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.

I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.

The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.

I am happy and proud that during one year of presidency, my initiatives have been strongly supported by the people and society and we have launched the process of vitally important state reforms.