About People Quotes

#1. Don't expect people to change until you change your perceptions about people.

Debasish Mridha

#2. I don't know why it is, exactly, but the people with the healthiest self-esteem, are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people.

Donald Miller

#3. Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a genius. You don't have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

John C. Maxwell

#4. Most stories are not about people
but about life, an addiction like the rest of them
that destroys you even as you love it,
but you love it anyway and can never get enough.

Michael Hogan

#5. Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect.

Juan Somavia

#6. In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#7. What I don't like so much is to give explanations about people's behaviour ... I'm not interested in making conclusions. I would never think about myself or anyone else, 'Well, this happened, this happened, this happened, so this must be the result.' It doesn't work like that with me.

Claire Denis

#8. I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that.

Steve Buscemi

#9. I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm well

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#10. I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

#11. Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

Tom Peters

#12. There's a lot you can't tell about people, looking in from the outside
-Hanna

Sara Shepard

#13. An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.

Zhuge Liang

#14. Hip-hop is about the human condition; it's about people's lives.

Immortal Technique

#15. My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us.

Chris Abani

#16. I get paranoid about people staring at me. Even now I don't deal with people looking at me. I can't do it sometimes. I can't go out. I don't know how to react when people stare.

Robbie Fowler

#17. If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one. But we are a country [USA] that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.

John Irving

#18. People talk worse about people than they talk good about people, because a lot of people like drama.

Hilary Duff

#19. I'm really looking forward to developing just really fun, complex, interesting stories about people who happen to be black.

Tracie Thoms

#20. When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.

Lewis B. Hershey

#21. When people talk about people who are optimistic about gold, they call them 'gold bugs.' A bug is an insect. I don't call equity bugs 'cockroaches.' Do you understand? There is already a negative connotation with the expression of 'gold bug.'

Marc Faber

#22. Music really isn't supposed to be perfect. It's all about people relating to each other and doing something that's really from the soul. It must come from the soul.

Tom Petty

#23. I'm genuinely curious about people, and I'm always interested when people do share with me. But I would not want someone to share something with me and then after the fact feel uncomfortable or regret it.

Alison Rosen

#24. I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.

Jodie Foster

#25. The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one:
ETC.

Kurt Vonnegut

#26. Anyone can go online and write anything they want about people they don't even know, and most of the time, that is fueled by hate. The sad part is that people actually believe what they read online.

Colton Haynes

#27. But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.

Terry Pratchett

#28. There is no need, in order to explain three-quarters of the opinions held about people, to go so far as a love that has been spurned or an exclusion from political power. Our judgment remains unsure: an invitation refused or received determines it.

Marcel Proust

#29. As Long as we Keep telling stories about people we lost, they'll never go away. (from Bonus features 'Big Hero 6')

Jeph Loeb

#30. She had read about people-where? she could not remember this either- who refused to name their children for several weeks, feeling them to not be yet of the earth, suspeded still between two worlds.

Kim Edwards

#31. This is rock'n'roll, not classical music. It's about people working together.

Cass McCombs

#32. One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.

Mira Grant

#33. The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

Millicent Fenwick

#34. You kind of worry for the characters in a way that you don't normally in sci-fi, because sci-fi tends to be about the ideas, and this is about people.

Mark Millar

#35. I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

Viggo Mortensen

#36. You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

Katherine Anne Porter

#37. The few psychiatrists I respect always talk about people being mad. Use the short, simple, true words... "Mad" has the right sound to it. It's an ordinary word, a word which tells us how lunacy might come and call like a delivery van.

Julian Barnes

#38. The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.

Patti Smith

#39. I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions."

Lisa Yuskavage

#40. Every time you do something, people are going to like it, people are going to hate it. You tend to make the movies on the basis you are making them for the people who are going to like them and not worrying too much about people who don't like them.

Peter Jackson

#41. I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.

Jason Bateman

#42. I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.

Samuel L. Jackson

#43. Choose words carefully when you talk about people. Spoken words can
sometimes hurt a human soul so strong that it can no longer be cured.

Eraldo Banovac

#44. Don't stress about people who don't deserve room in your heart or thoughts.

Krystal Volney

#45. I was certain that some people, whether by accident of birth or some pecularity of training, could tune in to another source of information and could know things about people we didn't think were possible to know.

Michael Crichton

#46. You asked how I'd define prejudice. That's it. Making assumptions about people you've never met.

Tony Horwitz

#47. I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are too big for the characters.

Kenneth Lonergan

#48. The second you make it all about you, is the second you've already lost. It's about people - it always has been and it always will be.

Chris Hill

#49. Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon.

John Hench

#50. Business is all about people, Miss Steele, and I'm very good at judging people. I know how they tick, what makes them flourish, what doesn't, what inspires them, and how to incentivize them. I employ an exceptional team, and I reward them well.

E.L. James

#51. I tend to write about people on the edge who are pushing things out from the edge but who are not necessarily big-ticket items.

Lawrence Weschler

#52. With all the people hating and hurting each other, I don't understand how people could get upset about people of the same sex caring for each other.

Michael Franti

#53. 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.

Dalai Lama

#54. Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.

Colin Firth

#55. I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life - how people live. I am most interested in individuals and how they respond to challenges or to difficulties or just to each other. I am curious about people.

Claire Denis

#56. You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.

Ayn Rand

#57. The good thing about people underestimating models is that the bar is set so low, you tend to impress people more easily.

Cindy Crawford

#58. I've always wanted to make a big apocalypse movie. I love 28 Weeks Later, I think it's great but Cell is totally different. It's about people's dependence on technology, the collapse of society and watching everything fall apart. That's something I've always wanted to do, which I believe it can!

Eli Roth

#59. It's unbelievable that people have the time and inclination to be as negative as they are on a public platform about people who accomplish whatever they do in the public eye.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#60. fond of people to stay in the field with the sheep. Well, I've got news for you about people, you big stupid

Jean Gill

#61. That's all YOU know,' said Digory. 'It's because you're a girl. Girls never want to know anything but gossip and rot about people getting engaged.

C.S. Lewis

#62. Stories are about people who are uncomfortable.

Lisa Cron

#63. If you talk about people that lie, this Ted Cruz, this is the biggest liar I've ever seen.

Donald Trump

#64. As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.

Matthew Weiner

#65. Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.

Halsey

#66. For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.

Robert Gottlieb

#67. I make up stories about people who are either imaginary or some variation of myself.

Jami Attenberg

#68. Mozart makes us care about people in flashes of lightning.

Simon McBurney

#69. I'm not perfect, but if there are any points given for caring about people with every fiber of your being and giving life all you've got every day, then I suppose I have a shot.

Jack Welch

#70. Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans.

Michelle Trachtenberg

#71. You have to learn how to care about people without taking on all of their problems.

Phylicia Rashad

#72. I learned that myth doesn't mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting.

John Green

#73. I have an inate curiosity about people.

Martin Bashir

#74. The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#75. We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

Ernest Gaines

#76. Homicide investigations are about people,

Camilla Lackberg

#77. It's about people who take their frustration out on everyone around them. I never raise my voice. Cutting myself or hurting myself is the way I deal with anger.

Richey Edwards

#78. But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

Ron Silver

#79. Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.

Stephen King

#80. I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

Pat Conroy

#81. I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

Aimee Bender

#82. The gospel of Jesus Christ is all about people. It's about leaving the ninety and nine and going into the wilderness after those who are lost. It's about bearing one another's burdens, with the ultimate burden anyone can bear being walking through this life without light.

Sheri L. Dew

#83. You can't assume the best about people. If I get a girl home and she takes her pants off, and it looks like she's got herpes, I can't afford to assume she got stung by a pack of bees.

Dov Davidoff

#84. For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people.

Mark Boal

#85. My mother used to say about gossipers
" Don't worry about people talking about you , whilst they're talking about you they are leaving some other poor innocent soul alone

Lou Silluzio

#86. I don't really use the Internet or the newspapers to find out about people.

Rupert Friend

#87. I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#88. Art teaches something we all need to learn, especially about people who are different from ourselves: To see things the way they truly are, sometimes you have to look more deeply.

Ron Hall

#89. When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

Rita Moreno

#90. I'm always for lower taxes because lower taxes make people want to do things. Less burden, more fun, and economics is about people wanting to have fun. Growth is fun for people in the marketplace.

Amity Shlaes

#91. I was involved with the landmines before the Princess of Wales, and nobody gave a damn about people losing their limbs. It only became a success when she came along.

Joanna Lumley

#92. I always had the same style of play. I didn't really worry about people kicking me.

Lionel Messi

#93. One thing I've learned about people is that the easiest way to get them to like you is to shut up and let them do the talking.

Jesse Andrews

#94. The punchline of the story relates to an American academic saying of Beckett, 'He doesn't give a fuck about people. He's an artist.' At this point Beckett raised his voice above the clatter of afternoon tea and shouted, 'But I do give a fuck about people! I do give a fuck!

James Knowlson

#95. I am urging that we should learn about people in other places, take an interest in their civilizations, their arguments, their errors, their achievements, not because that will bring us to agreement, but because it will help us get used to one another.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

#96. I once asked General Eisenhower's son, John, if his father ever nourished resentments. "No," he replied, "Dad never wastes a minute thinking about people he doesn't like.

Dale Carnegie

#97. Think about people in your own life who you have envied for one reason or another. It may surprise you to know that they do not see themselves the way that you do. Maybe they are all smiles on the outside but have personal struggles and trials that you would never guess from first glance.

Lindsey Rietzsch

#98. I started playing guitar, like, when I was 17 or so, but where I'm from, you just don't hear about people moving to Nashville and making it. It was such a foreign thing to me. I never knew music was an option for me.

Kip Moore

#99. Have fun, that's what it's all about. People get stressed over it ... Let competition eat them up. That's not me, I just get in and have fun. That's what I'm here to do: Have fun and make some money doing it.

Conor McGregor

#100. You'll often see posts about people beating the CAP theorem. They haven't. What they have done is create a system where some capabilities are CP, and some are AP. The mathematical proof behind the CAP theorem holds. Despite many attempts at school, I've learned that you don't beat math.

Sam Newman