With People Quotes

There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.

It might be tough, but my dad used to say, tough times don't last — tough people do.

Do wars support the military-industrial complex and therefore support the people?

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.

God is the God of the people who are at their wits end, who are right up against it with their backs to the wall, and He delights to come to our help when we need Him most.

Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make.

Secrets are inherently selfish. The longer you keep them, the harder it is to put yourself in other people's shoes about them and the more irrational your thinking surrounding it becomes.

I'm a really anxious person, so I tend not to keep secrets. I tend not to even want to hear them. It's too nerve-wracking for me to try and keep things from people.

As your life goes on you should gain a deeper understanding of the world and the people moving through it; but that might be asking too much.

I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.

The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.

We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.

One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the wisdom of crowds.

Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.

Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.

Companies, like people, don't much like to change.

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.

All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.

There does seem to be some evidence that as people get older, they procrastinate less, perhaps because they feel the pressure of time more.

You'll sometimes hear from people that they actually do a better job of getting their work done when they have a lot of other obligations - in effect, it removes the possibility of procrastinating.

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

Rest assured that my support for any eventual reform package will be based firmly upon what is in the best interests of the people of Upstate New York, not any party or president.

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

A song is what you fall in love with first, but then I think a band's ideals and a band's sense of fashion and a sense of how they treat people is what you fall in love with afterwards.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.

It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it.

Some people get married and they remain "I," some get married and become "we."

To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? That has to register.

A lot of movies you do because they're fun, they make people forget about their day.

90 percent of the people in the world make their decisions based on fear.

I am pretty specialized in people who pass over. Predictions are not my thing. Every medium is a psychic and every psychic is a medium. I do that occasionally but my specialty is spiritual pasts.

The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

I really wanted to approach performing live differently than most people who just play guitar and sing.

It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit.

I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the people who did not write them; so it's a new definition of "author."

Mostly things that have happened to me, feelings that I've had, but on a couple of occasions I've written about things that have happened to other people.

Machines Need to be Productive. People Need to be Effective.

I think ambition is a desire for recognition. People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

People want somebody to be a daredevil, even if they're not going to be a daredevil themselves.

People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.

I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.

People judge you because of your weight and your food issues. It's very visual.

For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.

As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press.

I'm probably one of the most co-dependent people around. That's why I made a movie about it, and I live it every day.