Quotes on People

I've noticed that even people who believe in fate look both ways before crossing the street.

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some form of nervous disorder.

The thing that we need in the world today, is a group of men and women who will stand up for right and be opposed to wrong, wherever it is. A group of people who have come to see that some things are wrong, whether they’re never caught up with. Some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not.

I want to tell people that family violence happens to anybody, no matter how nice your house is, no matter how intelligent you are.

Many people, especially men, feel it is an admission of weakness to ask for help or to express a need. But there is absolutely no shame in needing others.

I choose joy... I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical... the tool of the lazy thinker. I will refuse to see people as anything less than human beings, created by God. I will refuse to see any problem as anything less than an opportunity to see God.

Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.

Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter.

I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid - I wasn't - but because I simply lived in one world, and the grandmasters existed in a completely different one. People like that were not really even people, but like gods or mythical heroes.

Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!

Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.

Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence.

You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.

When you touch - don't take. Touch people only when you are giving something - reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever

Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense.

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical