With People Quotes

I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their paintings and then run out.

Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.

I think we're an inspiration to young people, to know they can be honest and not run away from influences that are not jazz. We're definitely breeding a new wave of jazz, for real.

Once I started getting mainstream people to my shows, I realized we were taking too many solos, and they were too long. I started gauging when people were going on their iPhones.

I do feel a responsibility because most people like me that are my age or younger, they don't quite make it over to the jazz side. They flirt with it, but they don't quite marry it.

Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.

If love drove people mad, what would lack of love do?

I have fixed more sentences than most people have read in their lives.

If people like what I do, fine. If they don't, fine.

But I don't work out. I pay people to do that for me.

You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?

By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.

For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument.

Your ability to work with people directly affects your ability to get work done in the world.

A lot of things in history are timing, and it's very peculiar because in retrospect things [and] people can look more brilliant or necessary than they actually were.

All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people.

People who are reading my books, or who are thinking about it, have some general idea about the concept of strategy. They're better off than somebody that has none. So I would never say it's useless.

Obviously there's Netflix, iTunes, and Amazon and all these other outlets. Fake It So Real is now on Fandor, and I think people have actually seen it there, which is fine.

I really do think you shoot for that beautiful experience of showing your movie in a crowd or room full of people, or even just one person who happens to go to a matinee screening.

It's fortunately a kind of society we live in where we can be diverse. People can take different paths and not feel like they're doing something wrong.

People would say I'm more polished as a passer than Tebow and Cam, but I'm not as physical a runner. But I am 6'2, 223, and I can throw with the best of them.

Man, I love the Lord of the Rings movies. Some people would say I'm weird for liking those types of movies, but they are so cool.

People have said some really good things about my performance, and that's what I'm happy about, what I'm excited about. I was able to go out there, and like I said, I put my best foot forward.

I don't want people to say I'm a solid quarterback. I want to be the best, and I'll continually work until I get there.

Life is graded on the curve. It's not how big you are, how strong you are, how smart you are. It's how good you are at the things that count relative to the people around you.

As economists have long noted, the puzzle is not that so few people vote, it's that so many do. After all, no individual's vote has ever tipped the balance in a presidential election.

When people bump up against one another in the course of pursuing their goals, it is in everyone's interest to resolve any resulting problems in the least costly ways possible.

Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."

It's flattering to make a picture which becomes a classic within 10 years; it's not so flattering, however, when people get the impression it's the only picture you've ever made.

And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.'

It is so difficult to make a neat job of killing people with whom one is not on friendly terms.

It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.

Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think that poetry can do that.

I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read.

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. They long for the good old days when people read serious novels.

Environmental regulation looked like it was going to be under serious attack, and they were giving all of those speeches about getting government off people's backs.

There's very little solid research on readership, yet people make pronouncements about it all the time.

What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.

Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to.

There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their own time, and their own land.

The more simply you see, the more simply you will render. People see too much, scatteringly.

Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn

I thought I pretty much knew Johnny Cash's life. But one of my personal discoveries was how little we know about any of these people.

There was a lot of sorrow in [Johnny] Cash's life. Even while he's trying to make music to inspire people he's fighting day after day with his own demons and sorrows.

One of the big mistakes I think we make in relationships is that we don't give our best energy to the people that matter most.

Stop talking to people about what you will do; show them instead what your are doing.

My chief 'success philosophy' is, 'Give people every opportunity to say "Yes" to you'.

When there's fear people act out in desperate ways.

The impression that is out there about me is that I'm really hard-nosed, but the people who really know me, know that I am a soft touch.