People'and Quotes

#1. When it comes right down to it, whatever business you're in, you're in the people business. After all, people prefer to do business with people and companies they find likeable.

Karen Salmansohn

#2. You think you're going to be on TV a year out of college and you're not. Then you tell people and it's embarrassing. And then it's not a big deal at all.

Nick Kroll

#3. Sick people grew to resent well people, and sometimes that was true of husbands and wives, or even of mothers and their children. Both

Alice Munro

#4. I started with California, and I did not like it. I flew over to Seattle, and I did not like it much. I felt like Iowa is the place - I like the people and the environment.

Liang Chow

#5. If you're open with people and provide context for the decisions that your making, customers will stick with you.

Andrew Mason

#6. This president [Barack Obama ] has seen personnel records of people who have sacrificed for the American people and for the federal government stolen by the Chinese and he's done nothing in return.

Chris Christie

#7. I think you have to work with people, and when I talk about managing relationships, don't think the derogatory 'managed relationships'. It is a question of sharing emotion and feelings. The common denominator of everything can't be money, and it should not be money.

Anil Ambani

#8. Both the Jewish people and the Palestinian people have lost too many sons and daughters and have shed too much blood. This must stop, and all attempts to stop it must be encouraged.

Elie Wiesel

#9. I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it's not so easy when you try it in real life.

Susane Colasanti

#10. I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.

Loretta Lynn

#11. I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

Grover Cleveland

#12. My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.

Clint Eastwood

#13. You have the power to bring out the best or worst in people. Focus on the good in people and that is what you will get more of. Focus on peoples potential and you can bring out the best in them. The power is in your focus.

Jeanette Coron

#14. The king should be the servant of his people, and seek to uplift them and their lives.

Aleksandra Layland

#15. I just like the people and the culture of Southeast Asia.

Jim Webb

#16. I walked out and I got a standing ovation from all these people, and it's like a creepy thing ... either you've become a cultural icon, or they are applauding the fact that you are not dead yet.

Neil Gaiman

#17. I'm always interested in getting to know people, and that means vilified people as much as those celebrated. You find out that heroes aren't always so heroic, and villains have some bit of humanity in them.

Dustin Lance Black

#18. I feel a whole country growing inside me, thousands of years, millions of people, stupid, crazy, shrewd people, and all of them me. I never felt like that before, I never felt that there was anything inside me, even myself.

Peter S. Beagle

#19. We are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us, and increasingly unable to engage in long-form thinking. People now feel anxious when their brains are unstimulated.

Joe Kraus

#20. Hear Jesus as a family and serve Him. Care about people and love people.

Louie Giglio

#21. I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.

Christopher Rice

#22. People and their religions don't affect me.

Cat Power

#23. Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.

Rosalynn Carter

#24. Never make a sales pitch as the way you introduce yourself. What you CAN say is how you help people and businesses.

Beth Ramsay

#25. The only way you can get experience is from the clock. Time works with some people and against some people. Fortunately, the clock has worked in my favor.

Bernard Hopkins

#26. When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me."
That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.

Augusten Burroughs

#27. I'm still aspiring to be a better and better person, but I think that disappointments have made me gentler with other people and their disappointments, the stuff that they have to carry around and endure.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#28. The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women.

Anna Quindlen

#29. How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

Jim McKay

#30. Shame is much more likely to be the cause of destructive behavior than the cure. Guilt and empathy are the emotions that lead us to question how our actions affect other people, and both of these are severely diminished by the presence of shame.

Brene Brown

#31. Housing without people, and people without housing.

Milad Hanna

#32. Our new economic approach is rooted in ideas which stress the importance of macro-economics, post neo-classical endogenous growth theory and the symbiotic relationships between growth and investment, and people and infrastructure.

Gordon Brown

#33. Social media is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism, one-to-many, to a many-to-many model, rooted in conversations between authors, people and peers.

Brian Solis

#34. Liberal democracy is a powerful unifying mechanism, blurring differences between people and imposing uniformity of views, behavior, and language.

Ryszard Legutko

#35. You watch people and study them the way an alien would.

Billy West

#36. Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.

Joe Wilson

#37. In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

John Naisbitt

#38. I felt a sense of pride swell in me. Not for myself but for these two women. They were everything I wanted to be someday - successful, happy, dedicated to their town and its people, and most importantly they knew who they were.

Jana Deleon

#39. I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible would be it, no question. I'm fascinated by human behavior; observing people and seeing how much story gets told without a lot of dialogue, and how much our brain fills in.

Thomas Schlamme

#40. findings suggest that by six months of age, infants are watching how people behave toward other people, and they are developing a preference for those who are nice rather than those who are mean.

Jonathan Haidt

#41. A high, positive vibration attracts positive events, people and situations; a low, negative vibration attracts more negativity.

Brenda El-Leithy

#42. The world needs to listen to the cry of the earth, which is asking for help. If you carry on killing people and you continue to destroy nature and you take out all the oil, the minerals and the wood, our planet will become ill and we'll all die.

Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

#43. The extraordinary triumph of the cellphone among India's poor stemmed from its ability to enable a most mundane human need, which is to chat with other people. And when the poor chat, it is not always about curing a child of diarrhea.

Manu Joseph

#44. It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.

Dido Armstrong

#45. You can be quite sure that all who cease to understand their own people and lose their ties with them, immediately and to the same extent, also lose the faith of their fathers, and either become atheists or indifferent.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#46. People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.

Garth Stein

#47. have to know, he thought. I have to get out there and talk to people and see for myself. But there's nothing I can do now, and, dammit, I need some sleep.

Jeff Shaara

#48. Bourgeois political economy ... never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his history and is thus in the profoundest sense not a 'science of people' but of non-people and of an inhuman world of objects and commodities.

Herbert Marcuse

#49. The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of that spirit-the will to win and the courage to work.

George B. Cortelyou

#50. The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on popular sovereignty representing the people and those founders who wanted two houses, the upper house, the Senate, being the more aristocratic.

George Packer

#51. The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.

Rob Walton

#52. hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear.

Terry Pratchett

#53. On 'Old School,' I was not an actor, I was Snoop Dogg, so I came to the set with a whole different vibe, and a different crew of people. And on 'Starsky and Hutch,' I was more of an actor. I wasn't Snoop Dogg, the rapper.

Snoop Dogg

#54. Outside of my family, I don't really know. They're great people and my parents are great parents, and they brought me up very well, I think. I don't know, I think that's about all the heroes I've had.

Robert Pattinson

#55. It is awareness of both our shared pain and our longing for happiness that links us to other people and helps us to turn toward them with compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

#56. I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy of freedom, I seek it more fully now for my people and for all people everywhere.

Pearl Primus

#57. But I've never known what to do with people and the things I like, sometimes they weigh me down, ever since I was a girl.

Clarice Lispector

#58. Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves.

Kristin Hersh

#59. What American people and what the markets want is a fair and level playing-field, where the rules are clearly elucidated, where the referees are competent, and where we know that the game is not rigged.

James Chanos

#60. I care about you as people, and I believe you are capable of great things. Each of you will contribute something to this world. You are important. You would be missed.

Cindy L. Rodriguez

#61. I want to communicate with people, and I want to make something that works, and that people like. I'm never purposefully trying to be antagonistic or shocking or anything that would push an audience away. I'm always hoping to reach as many people as I can.

Joe Swanberg

#62. Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

Khalil Gibran

#63. Christian love comes from the understanding that there is a unity of divine origins in oneself and in other people, and not only in people, but in all living things.

Leo Tolstoy

#64. I set out to write books, to be surrounded by generous, brilliant people, and to have great adventures.

Rebecca Solnit

#65. I love the people and I actually think they like me a lot.

Donald Trump

#66. There are a lot of people that get interested in something, and they hear about it, and they read about it, and then they watch it happen, and that's why I had quite an interest in the lottery because you'd interest a lot of people, and then just a few would win a chance to do something.

Buzz Aldrin

#67. Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#68. I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don't have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Joel Osteen

#69. The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

Karl Pilkington

#70. I don't think I ever expected anything like an Oscar ever, to tell you the truth. That is not my motivation when I do these roles. I really am motivated by being able to work with great people and create a body of work that I can look back and be proud of.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#71. By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.

Kate Reardon

#72. Business is about creating VALUE for people. And earning money is the OUTCOME of creating value for people!

Kevin J. Donaldson

#73. I'm really interested in the link between creativity and humor because humor is a type of creativity, and I do think that humorous people and humorous health helps creativity.

Robert Mankoff

#74. We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves.

Jo Ann Davis

#75. India's place in the sun would come from the partnership between wisdom of its rural people and skill of its professionals

Verghese Kurien

#76. Give me the right people and I don't much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn't matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.

Colin Powell

#77. I want to educate people and deliver news that isn't just surrounded by Charlie Sheen. I'd like to be able to do the serious stuff in conjunction with the comedy.

Chelsea Handler

#78. That is the man you face. He has more honour and integrity than any man I have ever met. He is dedicated to his people and his country. And I am proud to have been his lover.

C.S. Pacat

#79. In the States, entrepreneurs inspire a lot of people and are respected for creating jobs. That makes people dream and feel happy for their country.

Delphine Arnault

#80. What I want to get out of my college course is some knowledge of the best way of living life and doing the most and best with it. I want to learn to understand and help other people and myself.

L.M. Montgomery

#81. If we don't invest in our people and give them the feedback they need, we can't expect to have a high-performing business.

Georgia Murch

#82. Needing people and caring about them were two very different things.

Meg Howrey

#83. One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity can become an asset; it makes you aware of your need to be with people and it allows you to be more willing to look at their needs.

Henri Nouwen

#84. God is serious about holiness in the lives of His people, and He will discipline us to attain it.

Jerry Bridges

#85. When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#86. People and squirrels are very different. Most people will not argue that. But I find that there is one situation in which they're very similar. And that is: when I am driving towards them in my car. Then they're kind of hard to tell apart - especially if the human is kind of hairy.

Demetri Martin

#87. It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.

Richard Branson

#88. I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.

Alan Green

#89. What I did was experiment with a little marijuana like a lot of other people and walked away ...

Tom Brokaw

#90. I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere.

Mira Nair

#91. I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.

D.W. Griffith

#92. The Horror of the world was that thousands of evils fell upon innocent people, and no one was punished and with great promise there was nothing but pain and desire Children mutilated to form a choir of seraphim. Their song was a cry to heaven the sky was not listening.

Anne Rice

#93. This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it may be one of the most durable aspects of the relationship between black people and their country really in our history.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#94. An army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and all those for which society has no use.

Count Of St. Germain

#95. I hung around hippie-ish kind of people and, first of all, they never made any money. If you never make any money, you never have to declare any profession!

Charlemagne Palestine

#96. The way I would choose to identify myself wouldn't be gay. I've been attracted mostly to 'she's' but I've been with many people and I'm open to love wherever it can be found.

Ezra Miller

#97. In order for the Prevail Scenario to work ... you will have to have a world in which you have both differences between people and opportunities for intense connectedness.

Joel Garreau

#98. That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

Jamie Foxx

#99. Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin. They built this castle together, far from prying Muggle eyes, for it was an age when magic was feared by common people, and witches and wizards suffered much persecution.

J.K. Rowling

#100. The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive ... and begin to act accordingly.

Shakti Gawain