People Quotes - Page 169

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It’s about stimulating them. It’s about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.

The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people - they're ravenous - they are very opinionated fans. But they're great fans.

Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them.

When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

Don't worry about what other people are going to say, because they're always going to say something, but, if you're just true to yourself, let that shine through. Don't hide who you really are.

Never doubt yourself. Never change who you are. Don't care what people think and just go for it.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us up and take us forward, and good friends will do just that.

I've seen lots of Halloween people dressed up like me and they'll send me pictures. And I found that very rewarding to know that I've reached anyone.

What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.

Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn't seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn't like that, so I decided I'd have to show them they weren't any better than me, you know? They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, 'He beat us at chess, but he's still just an uncouth kid.' So I decided to dress up.

People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put Jesus on the cross - it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer His death.

When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.

I can be very shy...but when I'm around people I know, I can be extremely loud.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.