People Quotes - Page 393

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Alcohol does not make ugly people attractive. It makes it so you could care less that they're ugly.

My worry is that the world is becoming more chaotic every day. My excitement is that more people paying attention to 'Less but better' could help solve our growing problems.

We are not perfect. The people around us are not perfect. People do things that annoy, disappoint, and anger. In this mortal life it will always be that way. Nevertheless, we must let go of our grievances. Part of the purpose of mortality is to learn how to let go of such things. That is the Lord’s way. Remember, heaven is filled with those who have this in common: They are forgiven. And they forgive.

Give (your people) the youth a proper environment. Motivate them. Extend them the support they need. Each one of them has infinite source of energy. They will deliver.

If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.

People are not "things" to be manipulated, labeled, boxed, bought, and sold. Above all else, they are not "human resources." They are entire human beings, containing the whole of the evolving universe, limitless until we start limiting them. We must examine the concept of leading and following with new eyes. We must examine the concept of superior and subordinate with increasing skepticism. We must examine the concept of management and labor with new beliefs. And we must examine the nature of organizations that demand such distinctions with an entirely different consciousness.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

In trying to express only those aspects of ourselves that we believe will guarantee us the acceptance of others, we suppress some of our most valuable and interesting features and sentence ourselves to a life of reenacting the same outworn scripts. Reclaiming the parts of ourselves that we have relegated to the shadow is the most reliable path to actualizing all of our human potential. Once befriended, our shadow becomes a divine map that—when properly read and followed—reconnects us to the life we were meant to live and the people we were meant to be.

Saving people, hunting things, the family business.

God save us from half the people who think they're doing God's work.

Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family back-ground; they are measured by the size of their thinking.

There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.

Become genuinely interested in other people.

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

But for those people who might give up: Get real about what you want and go after it.

If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.

Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them.

Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they develop certain thinking habits.

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things. Otherwise, I don't know, I felt very lonely with some of the issues that I had or history that I had. And when I shared about it, I found that others had it, too.