Quotes on People

Creative ideas are often attacked because people oppose change or do not understand new concepts.

In talking with people, don't begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing - and keep on emphasizing - the things on which you agree. Keep emphasizing, if possible, that you are both striving for the same end and that your only difference is one of method and not of purpose.

Most men die at 25, we just don't bury them until they are 70.

I became a journalist because I didn't want to have to rely on the press for information... I only read it to make sure of whatever everyone else thinks is going on, because it's useful to know what people think is the news.

We have a lot of goodness in this country. And we should promote it, but never through the barrel of a gun. We should do it by setting good standards, motivating people and have them want to emulate us. But you can't enforce our goodness, like the neocons preach, with an armed force. It doesn't work.

It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in.

I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them.

Dear young people, always be missionaries of the Gospel, every day and in every place.

We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.

Twenty minutes in the morning, 20 in the evening. Transcendental Meditation teachers have taught everyone in my company who wanted to learn how to meditate. The results have been awesome. Better sleep. Improved relationships with spouses, children, coworkers. Some people who once suffered migraines don't anymore. Greater productivity and creativity all around.

People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people's minds and smother thought, and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury their willing dead.

With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.

I'm surrounded by good people. That's the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam.

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it, they pay the penalty, but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

Bringing people together is what i call 'ubuntu,' which means 'I am because we are.' Far too often people think of themselves as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate.

God uses people who fail - Cause there aren't any other kind around.

The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others.

The Saints were not superhuman. They were people who loved God in their hearts, and who shared this joy with others.