People Quotes - Page 392

I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.

The modern technological world appears overwhelming to many people. It drives some to pessimism and despair. It makes others doubt the future of mankind unless we retreat to simpler lives and even to the ways of our ancestors. What these people fail to realize is that we cannot go back to those ways and those days. Furthermore, for all our difficulties, life today is far better for more people and the possibilities for the future can be brighter than ever if we develop not only new knowledge, but a greater faith and confidence in the human mind and spirit.

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs.

It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.

I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was starting to realize what the coke was all about and they were all starting to get lost.

We need an independent media to hold people like me to account.

People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

The people say what they like and then I do what I like

Bad reviews I've gotten never diminished the number of people in my audience; good reviews have never added to the number of people in my audience; be your own critic.

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so!

The trouble with most people is that they want to know the way and the channels beforehand. They want to tell Supreme Intelligence just how their prayers should be answered. They do not trust the wisdom and ingenuity of God.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

Sometime in the coming century, people will rack their brains pondering how nations with tremendous scientific and intellectual achievements could have given uninstructed and untrained men and women the right to vote equally uninstructed and untrained people into responsible positions.

As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so many more clever people - the underlying value of that which is traditional, of that which is prescriptive.

Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

Design is art that people use.

When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there.

People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.

It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.

If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.