People Quotes - Page 279

A bodhisattva doesn't have to be perfect. Anyone who is aware of what is happening and who tries to wake up other people is a bodhisattva. We are all bodhisattvas, doing our best.

Always observe, watch, and talk to older people.

In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality.

To be elected president, you have to do more than tear down your opponents. You have to give the American people a reason to vote for you - a reason to hope - a reason to believe that under your leadership, America will be better.

The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

Fashion, as we knew it, is over; people wear now exactly what they feel like wearing.

All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure.

There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.

Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation...

Le temps qui change les e" tres ne modifie pas l'image que nous avons garde e d'eux. Although time changes people, it cannot change the image we have already made of them.

That’s the big challenge of life—to chisel disappointment into wisdom so people respect you and you don’t annoy your friends with your whining.

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.

At our most elemental, we are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge. Human beings and all living things are a coalescence of energy in a field of energy connected to every other thing in the world. This pulsating energy field is the central engine of our being and our consciousness, the alpha and the omega of our existence.

God doesn't call people to a job description, He calls people to Himself and His mission in the world.

After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.

When people have points of reference that are humanizing, that demystifies difference.

Africa is one continent, one people and one nation

Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge

I think to be a good veterinarian, you have to like people.

Pretty, and you may be talented, but nobody will remember that if you're mean.

I don't believe in anything, only in myself, but I respect all people who believe in something.

Don’t allow negative people to steal your joy. When you lose your joy, you lose your strength.

Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks.