Top 100 Quotes About Other People
#1. The best way to conduct research on a larger scale is to make sure everyone knows what everyone else is doing ... The sooner the better - start talking to other people about what you're doing. Because that's what will stimulate things the fastest.
James Harris Simons
#2. After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.
Henry Bromell
#3. When you do what someone else wants you to do, you are wasting your time. Don't get tricked by other people's thinking. The life is yours and so are goals. Believe in your own intuitions, speak your own voice, and follow what your heart says. The rest is secondary.
Ashish Patel
#4. We are not entitled to assume or assert that other people should change to make it easier for us to avoid changing ourselves.
Elaina Marie
#5. Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.
Sidney Jourard
#6. Put me on telly, and I think I have a relaxation on camera that makes an audience relax, too. It's not a conscious thing. Cameras don't bother me, whereas other people try to perform to them.
Kevin Whately
#7. Why do people want to talk to each other? I mean, what are the things people always want to find out about other people?
Shirley Jackson
#8. If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.
Tom Stoppard
#9. Jesus was the only perfect person, so all other people God uses are sinful and flawed.
Vance C. Kessler
#10. To be able to see the world through other people's values and truly empathize with them means that you cannot see all people who have different moral values than yours as enemies to be demonized. There
George Lakoff
#11. ...notice all the many beautiful things, nature, your own soul, stuff other people do.... like help out, smile, create, dance...
Jay Woodman
#12. He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#13. Galileo did not want to agree. He never wanted to agree; agreeing was something other people did, with him, after they had disagreed.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#14. The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool.
Jimi Hendrix
#15. If you're doing something in the city, then hopefully you're speaking to somebody who has an open mind who is walking by. And you're also speaking to a community of other people who do similar types of work. I like to think that the outdoor community is broad and able and open for anybody to see.
Margaret Kilgallen
#16. I think it's a great honor to win an Oscar but I think if you aim to be rewarded in your life you'll get nowhere. I think that the biggest reward is the work itself and what you get out of it and the connections you make with other people.
Natalie Portman
#17. Asian Americans haven't had as many opportunities as other people to build their careers in Hollywood, just because there hasn't been that much of an interest, especially in Asian American males.
Daniel Wu
#18. On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#19. I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.
John Henry Mackay
#20. Every Thanksgiving we feed the homeless so they may join us as we celebrate other people finding a home.
Dana Gould
#21. In the dream state, the mind and soul are set free to create as they please, to imagine vast worlds not tied to gross sensory realities but reaching out, almost magically, to touch other souls, other people and far-off places, wild and radiant images cascading to the rhythm of the heart's desire.
Ken Wilber
#22. In fiction film, there are so many trappings - money, glory, champagne and supermodels - that attract the wolves. But in documentary film, there's none of that, so the wolves stay away. The only people who make docs are people who are curious about other people and just like making documentaries.
Marshall Curry
#23. Let other people do it their way. What other people do is irrelevant.
Victoria Moran
#24. Some of us learn from other people's mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
Zig Ziglar
#25. You are not in competition with anybody except yourself;plan to outdo your past not other people.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#26. If you can't laugh at yourself, make fun of other people.
Bobby Slayton
#27. I'm starting to realize that being born into this social world is a little like being born into clean air. You take it in as soon as you breathe, and pretty soon you don't even realize that while you can walk around with clear lungs, other people are wearing oxygen masks just to survive.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#28. I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.
Rachel Zucker
#30. If in the sex scene you happen to be naked in front of a lot of other people you've just got to put that aside, in the same way that you have to put that aside in a fully-clothed intense dialogue scene because you're entering into that particular imaginative state of play.
Geoffrey Rush
#31. I like working with other people but I'm not a songwriter, I'm a producer.
Josh Silver
#32. There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.
Sue Townsend
#33. Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.
Fay Weldon
#34. I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work.
Scarlett Johansson
#35. Somehow, happiness is not diminished by being shared out with other people.
Jon Richardson
#36. Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.
Theodore White
#37. We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.
Pete Cashmore
#38. I don't obsess about my weight, which is probably one of the reasons why other people have such a problem with it.
Kelly Clarkson
#39. I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress.
William Gibson
#40. My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.
Ruben Studdard
#41. Leaders, whatever the size of their organizations, are those willing to put the interests of other people before their own.
Simon Sinek
#42. What do we really know of other people's souls. Of their struggles, dreams, or tempations. For there is only one soul who we truly do know and thats the ones who's destiny is placed on our own hands
C.S. Lewis
#43. I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave.
Ruth Rendell
#44. Don't wait for other people to tell you whether you can do something. You can do something whenever you want.
Nick Lang
#45. There's something you learn from helping other people with their dreams that prepares you for your own.
T.D. Jakes
#46. I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.
Leslie Caron
#47. My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do.
Gregory Benford
#48. Yeah, but in the end his followers take what they want from his philosophy. Maybe it doesn't matter what's going on in David Icke's mind. It's how other people take him.
Jon Ronson
#49. I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done.
Todd McFarlane
#50. Every single person on the planet is rewarded for one thing and one thing only, and that is for serving other people. The more you serve others, the higher your reward.
Larry Winget
#51. You're hoping that it's going to be an extraordinary experience any time you create and/or listen to music with other people. I guess what I've been saying over the past few minutes is that it's hard to do that, to create that.
Will Oldham
#52. Maybe I'm seeing myself in a different way than the people in the audience see me, 'cause to me, I think I look like a ballerina and I feel like a ballerina. But maybe I'm not seeing what other people are seeing.
Misty Copeland
#53. What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.
Oprah Winfrey
#54. There are so many songs I've recorded, only to hear other people singing them. It happens all the time.
Leona Lewis
#55. As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see. So I never assume that only a few people will appreciate what I do. At all times, the public should be able to understand what I've done, even if they don't understand how I've done it.
Elliott Erwitt
#56. Dogs were like the worst drunks - lunging at crotches then pissing over other people's shoes.
Lucy Wood
#57. Other people might want a Ferrari, but I wanted a butterfly house. I built it together with a blacksmith. We designed it together.
Andre Rieu
#58. My definition of cursing is probably different from what other people's definitions are.
Jimmy Kimmel
#59. In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.
Bijou Phillips
#60. We are all here, on this earth for only one go around. And everyone thinks their purpose is to just find their passion. But perhaps our purpose is to find what other people need.
Meg Wolitzer
#61. It's different for other people; but we in our green youth have to settle the eternal questions first of all.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#62. I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.
Katharine Hepburn
#63. The next time you need to win someone over to your way of thinking, try nodding your head as you speak. People unconsciously mirror the body language of those around them in order to better understand what other people are feeling.
Travis Bradberry
#64. I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.
Jim Cramer
#66. For all of its glamour and frivolity, fashion happens to be a relevant and powerful force in our lives. At every level of society, people care greatly about the way they look, which affects both their self-esteem and the way other people interact with them.
Teri Agins
#67. I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.
Richard C. Armitage
#68. Baggage is just the lies you tell yourself about the way things are. Those lies clutter up and obscure a clear perception of the world and other people.
Annette Vaillancourt
#69. I'm still lonely and it's a glorification of something I'm not finished with. I don't want to be distracted from my work by other people, but the absence of it all distracts me from my work and that's why I run towards the city, to get a little glimpse of it.
Charlotte Eriksson
#70. My greatest achievement is being able to write records that are real snapshots of what's going on in my life. I won't repeat myself for the sake of commerce, or to please other people.
Alanis Morissette
#71. If you can disappoint yourself as much as you love yourself and you still manage to disappoint yourself then why are you shocked when other people that you love disappoint you.
T.D. Jakes
#72. The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.
David Icke
#73. I honestly produce for myself, not for other people and everyone who supports me I'm really, really, really am thankful for the fact they are supporting me. However, in dance music, you need to switch it up sometimes.
Nicky Romero
#74. I can't worry about what people are going to think of me and if they're going to like me more than other people. You just have to be present and live in the moment and if it works out, then awesome and I wish everyone who is trying to do the same thing, genuinely the best of luck.
Victoria Justice
#75. What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.
Siobhan Davies
#76. Each person has what he doesn't want, and other people have what he does want. Married
Jerome K. Jerome
#77. It's great to have other people's help. Then the music gets heard. There's a lot more commercial support for that now.
Madeleine Peyroux
#78. If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Anne Frank
#79. We often learn most about ourselves by learning about other people,
Gretchen Rubin
#80. Forgiveness is not an invitation to become a doormat for other people's hypocrisy.
Shannon L. Alder
#81. So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
Bayard Taylor
#82. I love when I meet generous poets, and generous meaning nice people, who give to the poetry community, who do interviews, read other people's books, and talk about them, spread the ... love, I guess. That means a lot to me.
Victoria Chang
#83. I know so much about other people's expectations and so little about my own.
Martin Pistorius
#84. It was easy to forget that other people lived in a world where rules and laws and common sense could keep you safe. A world where, if you did the right thing you were allowed to get on with your life in whichever way you chose.
Tabitha McGowan
#85. Lots of colors appear when you're working with other people.
Jean Stapleton
#86. I grew up in the church not being able to listen to anything but gospel. So, while [other] people grew up with their parents listening to Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin, I never knew they existed until I was able to listen to what I wanted to.
Rahki
#87. I love working with other people and bouncing ideas off them.
Gia Coppola
#88. Seven habits that help produce the anything-but-efficient markets that rule the world.
1. Think short term.
2. Be greedy.
3. Believe in the greater fool
4. Run with the herd.
5. Overgeneralize
6. Be trendy
7. Play with other people's money
Paul Krugman
#89. You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
Jimi Hendrix
#90. I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
V.S. Naipaul
#91. The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That's what gives rise to dictators.
Donald J. Trump
#92. Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.
Terence McKenna
#93. The dramas for me allow me to explore more behavioral, deeper psychological things. But the comedies obviously allow me to explore the idea of really working off other people. I'm having more fun doing that.
Robin Williams
#94. The icing on the cake is when other people enjoy your vision and support what you do.
Cise Star
#95. A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.
Douglas Adams
#96. If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read it, too.
Tim Maleeny
#97. Really? We always have a choice, do we? What about the choices that other people make that end up completely changing your life, not theirs? Where is our choice there, then?
Chris Carter
#99. The reason I'm a psychologist is based in part on my telephone routines. Much of my humor comes out of reaction to what other people are saying. A psychologist is a man who listens, who is sympathetic.
Bob Newhart
#100. The persistent advocates of contraceptive-style sex education have become more and more resourceful in using taxpayer funds to impose their casual-sex attitudes and explicit-sex instruction on other people's children.
Phyllis Schlafly