Top 100 Giving People Quotes
#1. Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear.
Brian May
#2. Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.
Timothy Keller
#3. The only keeper of your happiness is you. Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth and your attitude.
Mandy Hale
#4. We must also promote global access to the Internet. We need to bridge the digital divide not just within our country, but among countries. Only by giving people around the world access to this technology can they tap into the potential of the Information Age.
Al Gore
#5. I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand.
William H. Hunt
#6. I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.
Joel Osteen
#7. Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings.
John P. Kotter
#8. Giving people what they want reduces us to consumers instead of treating us like citizens, consumers who are on the prowl for the predictable and comfortable. What we want winds up being suspiciously like what we've already got, more of the same-the cultural equivalent of a warm bath.
Astra Taylor
#9. Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.
Roy H. Williams
#10. Five hundred thousand Americans die from tobacco poisoning every year, and it's legal. I don't know, it just that's the - you can't stop giving people organs because of bad behavior. If you keep on having bad behavior, then of course they'll deny you a liver, or whatever you need.
Larry Hagman
#11. I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.
James McAvoy
#12. Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
Peabo Bryson
#13. We are running up against the difficulty of maintaining a coherent philosophical distinction between giving people the right to stop external or artificial processes that prolong their lives and giving them the right to stop the natural, internal processes that do so
Atul Gawande
#14. When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.
Story Musgrave
#15. Skateistan's not just about skating. It's giving people life skills and hope for the future.
Tony Hawk
#16. If people are rude, that may be the end of the conversation, and maybe we won't have a subsequent conversation. But I believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt and believing the best about the person.
Michele Bachmann
#17. The great thing about the movies ... is-you're giving people little ... tiny pieces of time ... that they never forget.
James Stewart
#18. You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
P. J. O'Rourke
#19. Most of my life, I wanted to be a therapist, but then I just decided that I didn't want to be in charge of giving people advice. I want to know everything there is to know about psychology. But a therapist? No.
Gabourey Sidibe
#20. Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already have - a sense of vision, inspiration, or even an adequate grasp of a particular subject.
Hugh Mackay
#22. I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break.
Henry Rollins
#23. If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.
Brian Williams
#24. There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
#26. Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.
Tibor Kalman
#27. God specializes in giving people a fresh start.
Rick Warren
#28. ..... He liked it that way. Liked giving people the wrong impression so that when he sprung what the fuck he really was on them it was too late.
Jordan Silver
#29. A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them.
James Patterson
#30. Giving people what they want isn't just good radio; it's also the right way to run a country.
Adrian Cronauer
#31. It took a bit of popcorn and a library snack bar to make me realize that being a librarian was about more than just giving people information. It was about serving a community. And if the community is hungry for more than just knowledge, then maybe it's about time to open a snack bar.
Scott Douglas
#32. Insecurity can be solved the hard way or the easy way - and by giving people the easy option, dogmatic tribes remove the pressure to do the hard work of evolving into a more independent person with a more internally-defined identity.
Tim Urban
#34. Giving people like Dodd and Frank more authority is like rewarding an arsonist with gasoline and matches.
Daniel J. Mitchell
#35. The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why.
Michael Sandel
#36. There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p' isn't just about darkened committee rooms, endless meetings - it is about giving people the right to make decisions about our lives.
John Reid
#37. In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.
Christine Gregoire
#38. I'm considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms.
Ryan Lilly
#39. Help People Know They're Loved (Part 2) Spend the rest of your life giving people back to themselves, that they might love themselves. And show them by how you are with them that you know there is nothing they are lacking, nothing they are missing, nothing they need, nothing they are not.
Neale Donald Walsch
#40. Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
Jack Welch
#41. I'll never feel as comfortable singing as I do playing. The mandolin is my real voice. My actual voice is sort of my secondary voice, but I love to do it and I love giving people relief from playing with a little bit of singing.
Chris Thile
#42. To me, that's the role of government: not to give people a hand out, but a hand up ... giving people the tools to pave their own way to success.
James Langevin
#43. There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.
George Lucas
#44. If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.
Steven Johnson
#45. I'm not a big guy that believes that you gain energy from demonizing other people. I think you gain energy from giving people hope.
John Kasich
#46. I'm a sucker for giving people money on the street. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I can't help myself.
Jennifer Morrison
#47. If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.
Craig Ferguson
#48. Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves.
Martin Seligman
#49. Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.
L. Todd Rose
#50. I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.
John Mayer
#51. When you are giving people the gospel, you are giving them something to believe, and you have to set the stage for that. You don't just drive up and dump the truck and drive off.
Charles R. Swindoll
#52. I'd compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding.
Randy Pausch
#53. Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
Guy Laliberte
#54. Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes.
Peter Senge
#55. When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
Mark Zuckerberg
#56. There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives, because in both cases we are giving people the chance of more life.
Aubrey De Grey
#57. I am comfortable giving people direction. If something is not good enough, my job is to find a way to help them learn from their mistake, and understand that next time I expect better.
Frida Giannini
#58. Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. We do this by giving people the power to share whatever they want and be connected to whoever they want, no matter where they are.
Mark Zuckerberg
#60. Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.
Baltasar Kormakur
#61. One of the applications of Big Data is giving people the facts, and getting them to understand that their own decision-making is not perfect. And that in itself causes them to change their behavior
Laszlo Bock
#62. What Facebook stands for in the world is giving people a voice and spreading ideas and rationalism.
Mark Zuckerberg
#63. Poverty is not just about income: it's about aspiration. It's not just about giving people a couple of extra pounds a week, welcome though that is.
Theresa May
#64. Part of maintaining a thriving creative culture is giving people time and permission to play.
Tim Brown
#65. At the end of the day, I know that I make my living by dressing up, fooling around, playing pranks and giving people a good time. I am enjoying the ride.
Cyrus Broacha
#66. When you realize how much you're worth, You'll stop giving people discounts.
Karen Salmansohn
#67. I'm opposed to giving people money for doing nothing.
Newt Gingrich
#68. There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.
Damian Lewis
#69. I flipped the good doctor the bird.
Snorting, Gideon caught my hand and pulled me back down the hall.
"What is it with you and giving people the finger?"
"What? It's a classic.
Sylvia Day
#70. Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention.
Robert Breault
#71. By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
Mark Zuckerberg
#72. For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
Iggy Azalea
#73. When you've already been disappointed by the one person you're supposed to trust most in your life, you're not exactly keen on giving people any kind of ammunition over you.
Elle Kennedy
#74. On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.
Barack Obama
#75. Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air.
Stephen Covey
#76. When you give up,' said a slim older man whose home we rebuilt, 'you might as well lay down and die.' It was obvious that we weren't just giving people back their homes, but also restoring a sense of dignity.
Howard Schultz
#77. The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money.
Vivian Campbell
#78. We're not going to have Medicare for all.if we at least we can take a step in that direction by giving people 50 - age 55 to 64 a chance to buy in, then we're reconnecting with some of those ideals that go back to the great days of FDR.
Dennis Kucinich
#79. If some people are so hungry for a feeling of importance that they actually go insane to get it, imagine what miracle you and I can achieve by giving people honest appreciation this side of insanity.
Dale Carnegie
#80. Don't worry that you aren't giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.
Brandon Sanderson
#81. Comedians like to see people smile. With acting, I love giving people a feeling, an emotion. I like to give people a feeling. When they come away from my scene, I want them to think.
Keke Palmer
#82. Americans are responsible not only for really starting a lot of things in a lot of countries, but also for giving people the confidence to do things they might never have thought to do.
Emilio Pucci
#83. Most people turn things like elections into a fetish and think it's the only way to go: if we just keep giving people the vote, that'll solve all our problems. In the end, that's just a silly, infantile notion.
Pankaj Mishra
#84. Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.
Gene Simmons
#85. Charity ain't giving people what you wants to give, it's giving people what they need to get.
Terry Pratchett
#86. Posting dramatic charts or funny pictures is good and giving people smart reasons to believe what they already think is great.
Derek Thompson
#87. If I were President, I would spend the money that is spent on wars every 20 years and spend it on giving people work. Let them build roads, bridges, buildings, schools.
Liberace
#88. Giving people a hand up, not a handout, is the way forward.
Hugh Jackman
#89. I am done slowing down, giving people their time and space, letting them explore their options.
Marla Miniano
#90. I try not to be too invasive into my personal life. When I was younger, I used to tweet a lot, everything I was doing and feeling. I can't do that anymore, because it's just giving people too much room to judge.
Kendall Jenner
#91. I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.
Al Capone
#92. I say what's on my mind and have a good time. I try to give people a show. It's all about giving people a good time once you get out under those lights.
Al Jarreau
#93. If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.
Sue Monk Kidd
#94. Independence and free thought is what makes a person grow. By giving people the freedom and space to figure out who they are and be that, you give them the power to grow.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#95. We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live.
Francis Chan
#96. I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.
Roger Ebert
#97. Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.
Aaron Eckhart
#98. The most important thing is writing songs that resonate and giving people a chance to listen to them.
Corey Smith
#99. You can't just go around giving people cars. You're not Oprah.
Penny Reid
#100. I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.
Paul Bettany
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