
Top 100 What People Remember Quotes
#1. Your Brand/Business is what you do; your Reputation is what people Remember and Share.
Ted Rubin
#2. The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.
Brian Boitano
#3. If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.
Terry Pratchett
#4. If you give people a firm opinion, you run the risk of being wrong. Guess what? People remember when you're wrong a lot more often than when you're right. So the tendency is to include all the possibilities. It's intellectually honest, even.
Tom Clancy
#5. Some people think we're made of flesh and blood and bones. Scientists say we're made of atoms. But I think we are made of stories. When we die, that's what people remember, the stories of our lives and the stories that we told.
Ruth Stotter
#6. Isn't the past what people remember- who did what, how and why? And what the people remember, isn't that mostly what they've already chosen to believe?
Amy Tan
#7. Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don't see a whole lot of that any more.
Christopher Judge
#8. He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.
Boris Pasternak
#9. Your structure and format may not be perfect, and you may not have picked the perfect franchise, but if I pick up a script, and the characters are real, whole, complicated and come from a place of somebody who really is feeling it, that's what people remember.
Betsy Beers
#10. But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away.
Charles De Lint
#11. I know all too well that people only see what they want to see and remember only what they want to remember.
CL
#12. So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: hell is other people.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#13. God is so unique in giving His people ways to fellowship, witness, and remember what a mighty and merciful God He is.
Monica Johnson
#14. People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.
Charles McCarry
#15. What was the rationale for all this pillaging? Souvenirs. These people needed something to remember themselves by. An odd thing, souvenir-hunting: now becomes then even while it is still now. You don't really believe you're there, and so you nick the proof, or something you mistake for it.
Margaret Atwood
#16. I quickly remember what Finn taught me about how to get what you want from people: pay attention to them, figure out what they want and what they're afraid of.
Cristin Terrill
#17. Some people perceive Skinner to be complex. I just basically was trying to remember my lines, so I guess that's what they perceive as being complexity.
Mitch Pileggi
#18. It's different for everyone she said, you find out on your own. But in the meantime, you got to remember, you can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they're doing now.
Kate DiCamillo
#19. That's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today
William Faulkner
#20. Remember that people will brag about what they've achieved, but they don't brag about the price they paid to get it.
Penelope Trunk
#21. What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
Gale Sayers
#22. The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.
Craig Venter
#23. Looking back, I remember my family laughing a lot. We were never the kind of people that dwelled on hard times. My family laughs when things are tough. Growing up like that, I got used to making jokes about things that were difficult. So when I started doing stand-up, that's what I went towards.
Cristela Alonzo
#24. People remember what they want to remember and forget what they want to forget. If you told him something was important to you and he forgot to do it, he blew you off.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#25. We are nothing more than our stories and who we love. What we pass on, how we exist ... it's having people remember who we are. We're terrible at that in this world. At remembering. At passing it on.
Carrie Ryan
#26. I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.
William Gibson
#27. I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?
Gary Sheffield
#28. The thing is, memory is about trust. We have to trust that what we remember is fact. And we have to trust what other people remember for things we never saw.
James Renner
#29. What people have got to remember is that Sept. 11 happened in 2001 and not in 2003. It was planned under the presidency of Bill Clinton.
Jack Straw
#30. Be kind today ... to yourself, remember to be a good friend to yourself, accept that you're doing your best, love your perfect imperfections, be mindful of what you need and give it to yourself, and surround yourself with people who honor, love and cherish you for who you are.
Ian Lawton
#31. Remember nobody is good or bad. They are either strong or weak. Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations. Weak people,
Amish Tripathi
#32. We do not remember people as they were. What we remember is the effect they had on us then, but we remember it through an emotion charged with all that has since happened to us.
Storm Jameson
#33. You have to remember what's most important in life. I am loved by so many people and have a wonderful job. I know I'm incredibly blessed. I am a completely lucky human being.
Troian Bellisario
#34. In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.
James Hilton
#35. If people start pulling away the stereotypes of what angels are instead of these fluffy, teddy-bear kinds of angels, then they'll see, historically, that they were terrifying in some depictions. In the Bible, from what I remember, often the reaction to angels is one of terror.
Danielle Trussoni
#36. Remember, too, that at a time when people are very concerned with their health and its relationship to what they eat, we have handed over the responsibility for our nourishment to faceless corporations.
Lynne Rossetto Kasper
#37. What did you expect? Welcome, sonny? Make yourself at home? Marry my daughter? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know ... morons
Gene Wilder
#38. Do you remember all of your audiences?" Marco asks.
"Not all of them," Celia says. "But I remember the people who look at me the way you do."
"What way might that be?"
"As though they cannot decide if they are afraid of me or they want to kiss me."
" I am not afraid of you," Marco says.
Erin Morgenstern
#39. The thing I know for sure is that at the end of my life, what I'm going to remember is the love I felt for my family and my friends, and whatever good I did for other people.
Barack Obama
#40. I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.
Joe Hill
#41. I remember a conversation with my parents about who the people on the TV were, and learning they were actors and they acted out this story and just thinking that was the most fantastic notion, and that's what I want to do.
David Tennant
#42. Does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?
Neal Shusterman
#43. People will not remember what you say. People will not remember what you do. They will always remember how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou...
Mollie Bickle Cardwell
#44. You don't have forever. You have 24 hours each day to live by your values. People remember you only for what was most important in your life.
J.R. Rim
#45. People don't remember what we think is important; they remember what they think is important.
John C. Maxwell
#46. Livingston: I know it was your sixth company, but was there anything that you found you were better at? Greenspun: I think I was probably mostly worse at things than I thought. The VCs had a point when they said people remember how you made them feel more than what you said.
Jessica Livingston
#47. What people need to remember is they are eternal beings and that they never die."~Kuan Yin
Hope Bradford
#48. For paranoia about 'what other people think' : remember that only some hate, a very few love - and almost all just don't care.
Alain De Botton
#49. People may not remember exactly what you did or what you said but they will always remember how you made them feel.
W. Somerset Maugham
#50. ... people are never like what you remember them. You make them, as the years go by, more and more the way you wish them to be, and as you think you remember them. If you want to remember them as agreeable and gay and handsome, you make them far more so than they actually were.
Agatha Christie
#51. I think people need to remember what the situation was when President [Barack] Obama came into office.
Hillary Clinton
#52. Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.
Shirley Maclaine
#53. Look at what you want to change, gather a few people who believe in it like you do, and start moving forward. It's important to remember that you don't always need a destination. Sometimes, you just have to make forward motion. And you absolutely can.
Debby Ryan
#54. And only well-informed, warm-hearted people can teach others things they'll always remember and love. Computers and TV don't do that. A computer teaches a child what a computer can become. An educated human being teaches a child what a child can become.
Kurt Vonnegut
#55. But we need to remember that our definition of what is right is, as often as not, simply the way that people in positions of privilege close the door on those on the outside.
Malcolm Gladwell
#56. I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going to remember about a person.
Carrie Underwood
#57. What's there to tell? The people over there embrace for a minute, and then they go inside the house together. They leave the light burning. Then they remember, and it goes out.
Raymond Carver
#58. I remember when I did 'Mrityudand' there was this big hoo-ha, and people were asking me why I was doing an art movie, and I would just tell them that, 'You know, what's the big deal, it's a movie.' I'm so glad that's a thing of the past.
Madhuri Dixit
#59. I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling.
Jim Dale
#60. He kills people. Now I'm no expert, but doesn't that make you a bad person?"
Jamie glared at Nick. "You've killed a lot more people than he has. What does that make you?"
"Not a person," Nick murmured, not sounding particularly interested. "Surely you remember.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#61. Learning to read, and to a lesser degree, to write, are of course the major events in one's intellectual development. There is nothing to compare with it, since very few people (Helen Keller is the great exception) can remember what it meant for them to learn to speak.
Karl Popper
#62. I remember my first kisses with a lot of people, and they're rad experiences. And you don't have to really take it to that next level because that's what keeps it exciting.
Pete Wentz
#63. Of all the people I have met who have achieved a level of economic success similar to m own were driven to realize a dream, but not necessarily to become wealthy. Remember, success is doing what you want to do.
Robert Herjavec
#64. I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours to cast a ballot knowing what we ought to remember: that it makes a difference. Not always a big difference. Not always an immediate difference. But a difference.
Ellen Goodman
#65. History is a creative process (or as Napoleon Bonaparte once said, "a set of lies agreed upon"). The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will eventually do that to us, too.
Chuck Klosterman
#66. You know, sex is actually not so original as the way people love or the stories behind each relationship, which is what you remember. Sex is sex in the end.
Jane Campion
#67. No matter what happens, I don't think that anyone will remember me when I disappear. It will be like I was never here. There will be no proof that I ever existed ... you can't be sad if you disappear, because disappeared people can't feel sad. They can only be remembered or forgotten.
Matthew Green
#68. You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching and they will learn.
Benjamin Franklin
#69. I want people to remember ABBA as we were. I don't think that four geriatrics wheeled on stage is what we should leave as our legacy.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
#70. The Western public should learn and remember one essential thing about China: no matter what European and North American propaganda barks about the People's Republic, China is much more "democratic" than the West. It is democratic in its own way.
Andre Vltchek
#71. We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget ... They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom.
John Lennon
#72. Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.
Bill Gates
#74. I asked my dad what people would remember sooner, the things I said or the things I did. His response was: Forgive me, but what people?
Stacey T. Hunt
#75. I remember the first time I went out on the street to shoot pictures. I was in downtown Philadelphia, and I just took a walk and started making contact with people and photographing them, and I thought, 'I love this. This is what I want to do forever.' There was never another question.
Mary Ellen Mark
#76. I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it.
David Mermin
#77. Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
Neil Gaiman
#78. I remember love. It's what I have to keep on reminding myself. It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you.
Melina Marchetta
#79. If it's not meeting a need, turn it into a seed. Remember, we will reap what we sow. When you do good for other people, that's when God is going to make sure that His abundant blessings overtake you.
Joel Osteen
#80. Nothing lasts forever." "Some things do." "What kind of things?" "The things we like to remember. The love we've felt for people.
Justin Cronin
#81. When we think we know people inside out and we think we know what's best for them we should try to remember we don't even know what's best for ourselves.
Hayley Williams
#82. It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.
Rick Moody
#83. If we want to contrast what we have done in the past few years on delivery with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman delivered, let us remember the interest rates at 10 per cent. to 15 per cent., the 1.5 million fewer people in work, the boom and the bust and the borrowing at 8 per cent.
Tony Blair
#84. I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.
Clifford Geertz
#85. Was often told what I should do. He expected honesty and integrity in all aspects of life, but I was also told to hold doors for women and children, to shake hands with a firm grip, to remember people's names, and to always give the customer a little more than expected.
Nicholas Sparks
#86. Sure I do a lot of jokes about Anne Frank. But when you do those jokes, it makes people remember what happened to her. That process of bringing her story back doesn't have to be a serious one. What I say is all nonsense, but it helps to keep her memory alive.
Joan Rivers
#87. Before that I was a scientist. I did research in population biology. And that's what I always go back to, it helps me to remember that people are not the end of the world, although we may be when it comes to it. We're just one species among millions in this world.
Barbara Kingsolver
#88. I hope people remember me for the kind of person that I am, not because of what I do.
Sean Faris
#89. I've been doing voices as long as I can remember. When I was little I could pick up on sounds, and then I discovered you could distort what you hear and make people laugh or disrupt a class.
Frank Welker
#90. I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
Taylor Swift
#91. The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
Charles Kuralt
#92. One a very basic level, you are what you remember - your very identity depends on all of the events, people and places you can recall.
Richard Restak
#93. Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.
David J. Schwartz
#94. Politicians nowadays treat Americans like medical orderlies treat Alzheimer's patients, telling them anything that will keep them subdued. It doesn't matter what untruths the people are fed because they will not long remember. But in politics, forgotten falsehoods almost guarantee new treachery.
James Bovard
#95. You know -" Bailey pulled her aside "-you're stoning yourself. You have to stop doing that and remember what happened when those people wanted to stone that girl. Jesus said for the one who hadn't sinned to cast the first stone. But you're saving people the trouble by stoning yourself.
Brenda Minton
#96. That's what I do. I get in and get under people's skin and all that stuff. But you will remember me - and that's all that matters.
Shaquille O'Neal
#97. Only a few people are interested in what you have to say, but that's all right. You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds, remember.
Richard Bach
#98. How many likes you get on a selfie will not be what you remember 10 years down the line. The relationships that you form and the memories that you make and the connections that you make with people day to day are the things you remember.
Tyler Oakley
#99. It's rooted in things that maybe older people or people my age remember as being rock music. But at the same time, I don't think we're stuck in the past or retro. I think we've tried to push ourselves and experiment with what we can call Wilco music.
Jeff Tweedy
#100. Honesty is what makes a person. At the end of his life it's one of the things people remember. Your legacy isn't left by fame or fortune. It's left by the footprints of compassion and honesty.
H.M. Ward
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