People Quotes - Page 490

Be the kind of person you want to be with... If you don't like the people in your life, you are the one who has to change, not them.

I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade them from it either by words or by chastisements.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.

Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good people - people of character and moral literacy - can be conservative, and good people can be liberal. We must not permit our disputes over thorny political questions to obscure the obligation we have to offer instruction to all our young people in the area in which we have, as a society, reached a consensus: namely, on the importance of good character, and some of its pervasive particulars.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.

Maybe it's your obligation to use your celebrity for more than just your new BMW. I use mine to make people smile.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

The policeman on the beat or in the patrol car makes more decisions and exercises broader discretion affecting the daily lives of people every day and to a greater extent, in many respects, than a judge will ordinarily exercise in a week.

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.

People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or are not prepared to pay the price asked them. The price varies from individual to individual. Some get things at bargain-sale prices, others only at famine prices. But it is no use grumbling. Whatever price you are asked, you must pay.

To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for

People work in the system. Management creates the system

Some people are born losers; others acquire the knack gradually.

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?