People Quotes - Page 458

People's experiences are all different, and you don't know what the person experienced. They know, but you don't, so I think it's important to listen carefully to what a person has to say. And not to force them into any direction at all but simply to model what you've experienced, model it and also be what I call a Listening Presence. If you're really listening, then some of the barriers can dissolve or change.

When you create a business, you create something that improves the life of your customer, of another person, maybe of ten people, of a thousand people, of a million people. There's no higher calling.

With taxes, if they aren't working right, we can change them with a stroke of the pen. It's basically a market-type mechanism. People make their own choices. You run the taxes, and you get the results.

People do misinterpret events, especially the meaning of other people’s actions and the motives that lead people to act one way or another.

Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.

Maybe that's why there's an insecurity sometimes in acting, because it's not like there's a correlation between hard work and how people receive you.

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

Social sin is the crystallization ... of individuals' sins into permanent structures that keeps sin in being and makes its force to be felt by the majority of people.

We want to see our lives dramatized on the screen as we are living it, the same as other people, the world over.

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

The best defense against democracy is to distract people.

Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough [with the issues] to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world.

I think that Instagram suits me. People know I like to use it all the time.

There are leaders who know that however furious the debate, there are good men and women in all population groups - amongst blacks, amongst whites, and amongst Afrikaans and English speaking people.

I see life everywhere I look. I get the energy off the water. Hawaii really, when I am there, it feels like how we are supposed to live and how it's supposed to be: slower, just appreciating our surroundings. I love the people there and the aloha, the history. They're really rooted in something.

What is a constitution? It is a booklet with twelve or ten pages. I can tear them away and say that tomorrow we shall live under a different system. Today, the people will follow wherever I lead. All the politicians including the once mighty Mr. Bhutto will follow me with tails wagging.

The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.

The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the point. Poor people do not shut down factories... Poor people didn't decide to use 'contract employees' because they cost less and don't get any benefits.

Shah is a kind of magic word with the Persian people.

I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting.

Every tour is different. We like to give people a piece of something.

All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.