People Quotes - Page 298

The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. The publishers are usually businessmen who deal with businessmen. They deal with promotional people. They deal with financial people. They deal with accountants. They deal with people who work on higher levels. They deal with tax people, but have absolutely no interest in artists, in individual artists, especially very young artists.

Although people rarely died playing Quidditch, referees had been known to vanish and turn up months later in the Sahara Desert.

We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people.

There will always be people who challenge the idea that you belong, but it's important to work hard, to focus on yourself, and prove that you belong in this space of high-level athletics.

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.

Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

There is a subtle danger that leads people away from religion, prevents them from submitting to God as their Lord, and ultimately, brings numerous other forms of trouble and distress upon them. This danger is ROMANTICISM, which leads people to live, not according to their reason, but according to their emotions; that is, according to their desires, hatreds, their susceptibility to temptations and their whims.

I'll like to tell all the people who wrote me and said a prayer for me, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing.

I try not to take people who haven't really thought out what they're doing too seriously. I try not to let them get in the way of what I feel I need to do.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Now there are no priests or philosophers left, artists are the most important people in the world.

We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it.

People with opinions just go around bothering each other.

We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.

People don't always realize that a record is forever. It'll always be there under your name. You've got to be certain that it's right.

Film lovers are sick people.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is for it, is it even more certainly right? This, to be sure, is one of the tricky points of democracy. The minority often turns out to be right, and though one believes in the efficacy of the democratic process, one has also to recognize that the demand of the many for a particular project at a particular time may mean only disaster.

Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

You can do amazing things when people love you.

Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.