People Quotes - Page 269

Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination.

New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something

I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.

A lot of people are burning' C.D.'s. There are a lot of people burnin' peoples stuff, and that hurts a lot of rappers.

Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.

Nobody wants to see the village of the happy people.

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

It's not the act of arrogance to draw, it's humbling - you must use your God-given talent. And of all the people I sketch, in most cases I feel I have to measure up to the subject.

All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living.

People will let you down in this life, promises will be broken, you should expect less of others and trust more in yourself.

People don't smile because they're happy. They're happy because they smile.

I want to live in a world where people care about others, and try not to hurt others with words or actions.

That's the brutality of a breakup, isn't it? The people leaving think they did everything possible, the people left behind think what is possible hasn't even been tested yet.

You treat people with respect, they tend to return the favor to the company.

Godly people... nobly endure hard things. They know that their existence is meaningful and that they are destined for unlimited pleasure at the deepest level in heaven. Because they keenly feel that nothing now quite meets the standards of their longing souls, the quiet but deeply throbbing ache within them drives them not to compalint, but to anticipation and further yieldedness.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.

I think one thing I've learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool people.

Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone.

We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process; it's an organic process. And you cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.

Graffiti is like building a career. And there is a dialogue with the other artists out there mostly fellow writers because a lot of people who don't paint just see a blur when they look at it.

People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming.

But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader and a citizen, I don’t want to live in that world.

A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.

What does it matter, if we tell the same old stories? ...Stories tell us who we are. What we’re capable of. When we go out looking for stories we are, I think, in many ways going in search of ourselves, trying to find understanding of our lives, and the people around us. Stories, and language tell us what’s important.