People Quotes - Page 262

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity.

To me, the mind and body are one. I'm very transparent, in a way, and people can very easily make out what mood I'm in.

Market society is a game where you win by making sure other people are better off with you than without you.

You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.

As much as we've enjoyed it up here, we're also starting to look forward to seeing all the people back on Earth that we miss and love so much.

I want to lead people toward finding hope through the purity and healing power of metal.

Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality of even the best lives is very bad—and considerably worse than most people recognize it to be. Although it is obviously too late to prevent our own existence, it is not too late to prevent the existence of future possible people.

I'm not going to change who I am just because people think it's weird.

Business, like life, is about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.

Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful.

Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

Sin is a matter of opinion. Sins are only sins if you are hurting other people.

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

I'm going to speak the truth when I'm asked about it. This isn't for look. This isn't for publicity or anything like that. This is for people that don't have the voice.

Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what they're looking at - by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online. We're now able to stitch together these fantastic details and mental maps of what is going on in other people's lives.

People who really have Ki don't feel it because everything happens naturally within them.

Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their friends without charging: we called them "librarians".

We continually encounter hardships. People disappoint us. We disappoint ourselves. But God is constant and compassionate. We are not alone. He cares. Against all reason, the transcendent God loves us so much that He has committed Himself to us.

People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.

Successful companies create value by providing products or services their customers value more highly than available alternatives. They do this while consuming fewer resources, leaving more resources available to satisfy other needs in society. Value creation involves making people's lives better. It is contributing to prosperity in society.

I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time.

I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. I've got a technique. It's called just go get the damn ball.

If you want more people to come to the theatre, don't put the prices at £50. You have to make theatre inclusive, and at the moment the prices are exclusive. Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.

Whenever you're successful you owe that success to the people in the community, because they are the ones buying your product.