Quotes on People

No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.

Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.

And I don't think we should be continuing to propagate the idea that famous people are magical or special because it makes people feel like their lives ain't no good.

It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.

The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.

Life is a big collaboration - and when you're tackling something that is painful and troubling and is causing you such desperate grief that you think life's not worth living - you need to reach out. To people who will reach back.

If you're not sure how you feel about same-sex marriage, go and meet some of the families and see what they're looking for. Once you take it out of the caricature of what gay people are and what gay marriage is, and put it in the reality of family and what these folks are fighting for, it's really amazing.

The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new _x000D_ plans to replace those plans that didn't work.

You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them.

The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.

The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.

What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibility of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes...

People will say, 'There are a million ways to shoot a scene,' but I don't think so. I think there are two, maybe. And the other one is wrong.

I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.

It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.

Evaluate the people in your life; then promote, demote, or terminate. You're the CEO of your life!

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.

The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'