Top 100 People Who Can Quotes
#1. People who can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of its solution.
Kenneth Kaye
#2. Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.
Beck
#3. I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.
George Woodcock
#4. Good drivers are people who can put their brains on cruise control.
Adelle Waldman
#6. When they don't love you the way you want to, you mourn that for however long you need to. But then you get back up and you remind yourself. You are not a reflection of the people who can't love you. You will love again. You will be loved again.
Caitlyn Siehl
#7. We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one,
H.W. Brands
#8. The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
Moliere
#9. We all understand that we are living longer, and we are more likely to spend more years as frail, elderly people who can't work. We also recognize that the wonderful advances in medicine also come with wonderful price tags. Those are things you can't budget around.
Elizabeth Warren
#10. To be purposeful people who can get things done, we need to be able to organize our desires, goals, time, and efforts. This is an important aspect of functioning.
Henry Cloud
#11. Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.
Jesse Helms
#12. The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
#13. I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.
Vincent Cassel
#14. I'd been auditioning for parts for years. I never got any better at it. I'm crap at auditions. I know there are people who can walk into those rooms and make those lines sing on the page and get the job immediately. I wasn't one of them. I'm still not one of them.
Jamie Dornan
#15. There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.
Mark Zuckerberg
#16. To make my brothers and my sister laugh was the greatest joy to me in my life. I like people who can make fun of themselves a lot.
Gemma Ward
#17. I love London - its where I'm born and bred - but New York just has such an energy when you're walking around, and if you act or you write and you act like I do, its just such a good town for you because people here like people who can do more than one thing.
Cush Jumbo
#18. I've always been jealous of people who can tell stories really well in a room with a bunch of people. I've never been good at it because I'm not cocky enough to be like, "Okay, everyone, listen right now to this. I'm going to blow your minds with this joke."
Brendan Benson
#19. I don't like stand-up comedy that requires a lot of props. I really respect people who can walk out onstage alone and with no other tool but their own minds and can make you laugh and maybe even think a little.
David Letterman
#20. I'm not one of those people who can cry on cue. If I have to cry in an audition, I'm like, 'Okay, let me see what I can do.'
Melanie Lynskey
#21. You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.
Kate Hudson
#22. There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing.
Graham Coxon
#23. I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.
Tori Amos
#24. This sounds so bleak when I say it, but we need some delusions to keep us going. And the people who successfully delude themselves seem happier than the people who can't.
Woody Allen
#25. I like people who can make you laugh without using vulgarity, or bad words.
Michael Jackson
#26. Hierarchy means very little to me. Let's put together in meetings the people who can help solve a problem, regardless of position.
Carol S. Dweck
#27. The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined to accept them as serious like themselves. It's an unfortunate quirk of human nature and ought not to be fretted over.
Robert Genn
#28. The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don't care what you think.
Billy Connolly
#29. [The democratization of luxury] means more people are going to get better fashion. And the more people who can have fashion, the better.
Anna Wintour
#30. Employers say they want people who can think creatively, who can innovate, who can communicate well, work in teams and are adaptable and self-confident.
Ken Robinson
#31. I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.
Elizabeth Bishop
#33. All movements need a few people who can't be fired.
Gloria Steinem
#34. We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
Calvin Trillin
#35. If we pick a fight, then we're just as bad as them. Combat should be used just to help people who can't defend themselves, period."
"Well, if I don't fight back and they pound on me, then I'm one of the people I should be defending.
Tamora Pierce
#36. I never understood the nudity thing. I'm so envious of people who can walk around naked.
Robert Pattinson
#38. If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
Margaret Mead
#39. Haters are sometimes people who can't understand why everybody loves you.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#40. Always choose influence rather than power. It helps change people into people who can change the world.
Jonathan Sacks
#41. Children are the only people who can see adults from inside their lives, permitted to observe every small thing, as if their forming minds are incapable of judging what they see, or as if it does not lodge there, somewhere, permanently,
Anna Funder
#42. Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to get smart, useful things done.
Joel Spolsky
#43. I'm actually a big fan of Kathy Griffin because I think she's really funny. I think she's really self-deprecating, which is something I like to see in a comedian. I think those are really the best comedians: people who can make fun of themselves.
Chelsea Handler
#44. There might not be a lot of people who can understand you and the way you think, don't lose your temper and don't get sad, because you are destined to mark a new path.
M.F. Moonzajer
#45. I pity people who can't find laughter or at least some bit of amusement in the little doings of the day. I believe I could find something ridiculous even in the saddest moment, if necessary. It has nothing to do with being superficial. It's a matter of joy in life.
Sophie Scholl
#46. Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.
Mel Brooks
#47. Sometimes you meet people who can't swim. And I always think: 'Oh my God, that's extraordinary.' For me, it's always been a treat ... I just feel really happy in the water.
David Walliams
#48. Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.
Grace Hopper
#49. People who can't be questioned often end up doing questionable things.
Jon Acuff
#50. Why do people who can talk right waste so many words saying nothing?
Vince Vawter
#51. I put myself in front of people who can say yes to me, and I deliver value first.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#52. Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
John Philip Sousa
#53. I never wanted to get into high end in Colombia - the percentage of people who can afford it is very small, and they can shop abroad anyway. It's just not what I had in mind. I wanted to bring international fashion to as many people here as possible, who don't usually get exposed to such styles.
Esteban Cortazar
#54. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics. I'm not one of those people who can just spout off numbers for things, if numbers are thrown at me.
Brit Marling
#55. Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.
Madame De Stael
#56. Only cowards push a button from thousands of miles away, or tens of thousands of feet up, to kill people who can't possibly fight back.
Bill Maher
#57. It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal.
Fred Durst
#58. There's a lot of noise about me that stops a lot of people from listening, but the good side is if you expose yourself like that, you're left with only good people who can see through you-you get rid of all the wankers.
Sebastian Horsley
#59. The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade. The rock enthusiasts have created some of the most exciting theatrical events on the planet.
Jim Morrison
#60. Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa
#61. I'm a true believer in working hard and partying hard. I'm fortunate to be one of those people who can have just as much fun partying without alcohol.
Richard Branson
#62. Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes, people who can't move easily at night, students.
Zubin Mehta
#63. There are days when none of us can bear it, but the good comes around again. Happiness is seasonal, like anything else. Wait it out. There are people who love you. People who can help.
Sue Grafton
#64. You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
Warren Bennis
#65. Sadly, the truth is, there aren't many people who can be put in high positions who won't start thinking highly of themselves.
Joyce Meyer
#66. I like to play with people who can play simple and are not threatened by other musicians thinking they can't play. And that eliminates 99 percent of the musicians.
Neil Young
#67. The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that's gonna be successful out of 5,000 candidates. And there's not enough information to do that - it's an intuitive process.
Steve Jobs
#68. In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.
Barbra Streisand
#69. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.
Annie Lennox
#70. My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#71. AUTHOR'S GOODREADS PAGE: I like dysfunction. Broken people who can't fix each other, but fit together because they're missing the same pieces.
Lime Craven
#72. I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of Peking man. It will at last be consciously fulfilling its real destiny.
Julian Huxley
#73. The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
Wayne Dyer
#74. I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
Rachael Harris
#75. Being a writer can be a very lonely profession, but having a network of people who can sympathize with everything you're going through - from contract issues to the terror of changing your novel from past- to present-tense - is an invaluable asset.
Lisa Graff
#76. I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.
Dustin Hoffman
#77. The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.
Ben Carson
#78. The truest test of character is how we behave towards people who can do nothing for us.
James Runcie
#79. You doubt everything. And people who can't trust, eventually run.
Adrienne Wilder
#80. People who offer you conflict may be offering you the opportunity for growth. Seek these people out. These are the people who can show you that you can do it for yourself. You can be a big circle.
Kaleel Jamison
#81. People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.
Arthur Bloch
#82. Exercise is for people who can't handle drugs or alcohol.
Lily Tomlin
#83. Luxury brands are about elite access. In consumer goods, that's elite cost. In education, it's elite criteria for admission. Minerva is maintaining those high standards, but not artificially limiting the number of people who can meet it ... This really may be redefining education.
Kevin Harvey
#84. The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.
Darrell Royal
#85. I think that it depends what you mean by successful. If you mean 'make money' you need to be part of the machine unless you're one of those superhuman people who can do everything by yourself, and have workaholic tendencies and really good advisers and a good investor.
Sia Furler
#86. You start where you can get an opportunity, you take everything that you can do to gain entrance. You do the little work and you try to find people who can teach you.
Jon Voight
#87. You have to fight because you can't count on anyone else fighting for you. And you have to fight for people who can't fight for themselves. To get anything of real value, you have to fight for it.
Ronda Rousey
#88. People who can put themselves in the place of other people, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for them.
Dale Carnegie
#89. I'm nutty for nutrition. I've become one of those people who can't stop talking about the connection between food and health. Now that I know how much changing what you eat can transform your life, I can't stop proselytizing.
Robin Quivers
#90. We'll probably only consider a handful of individuals. We'll bring up people who can accumulate either innings or at-bats, so we can hopefully gauge where they stand as a prospective Major Leaguer.
Dan O'Brien
#91. It's interesting that people who can perpetrate cons have talked themselves into believing that they're not doing anything bad. That they tell themselves that there is nothing wrong with what they're doing is the crazy thing about human behavior.
Craig Zobel
#92. The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.
Robertson Davies
#93. I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.
Jose Saramago
#94. Study people who can teach you how to deal with people.
Don Meyer
#95. I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives.
C.D. Payne
#96. Turkey's great if you're one of those people who can't sleep on planes because when the tryptophan kicks in, it's no problem.
Mike Pesca
#97. If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.
Michael Josephson
#98. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
George Eliot
#99. Be around people who can keep your energy and inspiration high. While you can make progress alone, it's so much easier when you have support.
Joe Vitale
#100. bottom of page 33:
We all want to feel needed, and we also want to be with people who can manage on their own, if needbe.
Sara Eckel
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