People Quotes - Page 289

What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.

There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

A lot of people only see me as villains.

There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

The greatest gift of all time is that you can make creation infectious because people spend less time being negative If you log all the time with negativity in the while world, I wonder how much better the world would be if people sat down and did something positive. It spirals.

It might be hard to believe, but the air in prison is different. There's like one thousand people sucking on the one little piece of fresh air until it turns stale.

I think the Justice Department needs to be the final protector of the people of the United States of America.

I wanted people to know that I'm not just a guy who does weird videos on the Internet. I actually am a filmmaker, and I can tell stories, and I can create something that's 90 minutes long that feels just like any other movie you see in the theater, and hopefully enjoy.

The Internet gave a place like, 'Oh, I'll do whatever I want now. Nobody's going to see it anyways.' Oddly enough, people started watching and I got more confident, comfortable with it.

If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work

People say 'go with the flow' but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish.

The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.

If you have a choice between qualifications and personal qualities when it comes to hiring people, go with personal qualities. You can teach them the job.

It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

When people are too present, too familiar or too in our face, something happens to us psychologically. We begin to tune them out, we begin to get sick of them, we begin to know them so well and become so familiar with who they are that we loose a bit of respect for them. You pass a certain threshold with the fact that you're too present in their lives, too much in their face and once that threshold is passed you're never going to repair it they have lost a certain respect for you.

Graphic Design is the communication framework through which these messages about what the world is now, and what we should aspire to. It's the way they reach us. The designer has an enormous responsibility. Those are the people, you know, putting their wires into our heads.

All my life I've felt weak compared to other people. If they want to crush me then they can. But I know I can do things that other people can't.

As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

My mom taught me a lot. A lot about minding your own business and leaving other people's business alone. And let them think what they want.