With People Quotes

Once you can clearly describe what you are reacting to, free of your interpretation or evaluation of it, other people are less likely to be defensive when they hear it.

Time and again, people transcend the paralyzing effects of psychological pain when they have sufficient contact with someone who can hear them empathically.

Behind intimidating messages are simply people appealing to us to meet their needs.

We're not taught to think in terms of needs. We don't make nice dead people when we're in touch with needs. Domination structures cannot maintain themselves when citizens are educated to be alive.

I've always been curious in why different people believe the things they do and do the things they do - in the different ways that people live.

One of the reasons the producers' credit has been so weakened in recent years, and given to people who didn't deserve it, was that people didn't understand what producers did.

If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?

The public has yet to see TV as TV. Broadcasters have no awareness of its potential. The movie people are just beginning to get a grasp on film.

It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter.

Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he [Jimmy Carter] puts nostalgia in its place.

We criticize people for not giving us what we ourselves are afraid to ask for.

People will always be more willing to give you things that they think you don't need.

Scientists have a second brain where other people have their hearts.

What would be achieved ever if people lost the ability to dream?

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

Imagine what you'd do if it absolutely didn't matter what people thought of you. Got it? Good. Never go back.

Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward.

People don’t cry when they lose their hope. They cry when they get it back.

I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny.

Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.

TV has a lot of problems, but I think the Internet and social media have a lot more. Under the cover of anonymity people say the most vicious things.

[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.

Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more bones than you started with.

Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.

I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index.

When you value people, you give them freedom.

There's precious little comes of telling people what they don't want to hear.

I hate those people who say 'I don't own a television' - I own one and I watch it whenever I can.

In the theater, as an actor, you're welcoming people into your house.

We don't want to come off as pro-smoking. Even though we didn't smoke real cigarettes at all, you want to be careful of people's sensitivities.

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

I don't know if I've learned anything about people, but I've learned about Twitter.

The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

The American people want solutions to the problems our country faces. They may disagree on exactly how to address the issues, but they want them addressed all the same.

That's reality, it's accessibility. People are used to seeing me like that for the last year, I think, ... To avoid it is avoidance. We're not going to avoid things.

I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.

A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like buying duplicates - it's wasteful.

I don't think there's any company that has the same tools as Martha Stewart Living does, and people know that. They really love the tools and, if you have the tools, you can pretty much do the craft.

I've learnt to hide my tears on stage. They make people uncomfortable.

You know, people always ask me how I describe my music. First of all I tell them that's their job and then that also one day I hope to have things referred to as Martha Wainwright -esque.

I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love me.

I think a lot of people who read fiction are interested in subtlety. But they wouldn't like my stuff. It's a bit too violent for many tastes.

A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.

I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.

I want to live in a city where people who make the rules have to live by them.

I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.

As I have often said, electrons and gerbils don't cheat. People do.

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.

I'm the same as maybe six or seven people in every ten - I can't take f***ing criticism.