People Quotes - Page 246

Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.

Positive deviance means doing the right thing for sustainability, despite being surrounded by the wrong institutional structures, the wrong processes and stubbornly uncooperative people. That is what sustainability-literate leadership means today. Surrounded by evidence of rampant unsustainability it is not possible to say 'I did not know'

Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.

Reason #7 For Not Getting a Tattoo: People will know you are running your own life, instead of listening to them!

The [IBJJF] medal has zero value. It means as much as this tablecloth right here, but people still kill themselves to try to get those medals.

Is there a God? Is there an afterlife?... I think that now, more so than ever, people are much more willing to take the time and question what's out there.

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them anymore.

Talented people without discipline don't go anywhere.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people.

There are too many people, and too few human beings.

Funkers are people who dig the funk; Little funkers, Big funkers, Old funkers, Young funkers, Foxy funkers, Mother funkers, Papa funkers.

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.

You cannot have free and fair elections while one party controls completely and monopolizes the instrument of power and .. Tsvangirai is in and out of police cells almost on a daily basis, when people are being arrested, people are being beaten up.

Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat!

Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.

Collaborate with people you can learn from

The world would become better off If people tried to become better. And people would become better If they stopped trying to become better off.

Watch out for music. It should come with a health warning. It can be dangerous. It can make you feel so alive, so connected to the people around you, and connected to what you really are inside. And it can make you think that the world should, and could, be a much better place. And just occasionally, it can make you very, very happy.

Great leaders get people to think more of themselves, not more of the leader.

It is not that we had any unfair knowledge that other people didn't have, it is just that we did our homework. People just don't want to believe that anyone can break away from the crowd and rise above mediocrity.

When I interview people, I look at their values. I always say that the best chance of success is if the individual's values are aligned with the corporate values.

Rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.