With People Quotes
When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time.
People will turn to you, follow you, support you only as long as they are confident that you are doing your best.
People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.
All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression
The 80/20 principle - that 80 percent of result flow from just 20 per cent of the causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people.
When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to.
People tell me I look good these days. I look good because I feel good. I know people who are older than I am who are twenty-five... It's all about attitude. To me, age is just a number.
People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots.
People who are unwilling to make mistakes or have made mistakes and have not yet learned from them are those who wake up each morning and continue to make the same mistakes
... there is a particular propensity in the world for people, wherever they appear in great numbers, to permit themselves collectively everything that would be forbidden them individually.
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
Cynicism is the largest obstacle to social change. Cynicism is dangerous because people throw up their hands and say, "Well it's not possible. Why should I even try?"
Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.
Charisma is the intangible that makes people want to follow you, to be around you, to be influenced by you.
People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.
Conflict is the primary engine of creativity and innovation. People don't learn by staring into a mirror; people learn by encountering difference.
And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.
The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue really sets the social standard for what people expect the perfect woman's body to look like, and a lot of those bodies usually look the same.
What I want people to take from this is that it isn't simple. People judge you, people tell you what you should do. You do the best you can.
I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.
Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.
Being a scientist is like being an explorer. You have this immense curiosity, this stubbornness, this resolute will that you will go forward no matter what other people say.
People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.
I'm a firm believer that education is the most efficient tool we have to make people aware and make our children aware, and to protect them from the scourge of the century, which is AIDS
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.
Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.
All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams.
This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.
Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.
It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.
Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
I don't get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you're jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what's the point?
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
