People Quotes - Page 513

Okay, maybe I don't go around loving everybody I meet, maybe my smiles are hard to come by, but I do care for some people.

Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

I read to see myself in other people's lives.

Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life means also being open to the bounty and beauty. Don't mask or deny your vulnerability: it is your greatest asset. Be vulnerable: quake and shake in your boots with it. The new goodness that is coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things can only come to you when you are vulnerable, i.e. open.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

Being proactive is more than taking initiative. It is recognizing that we are responsible for our own choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than on moods or condition. Proactive people are agents of change and choose not to be victims, to be reactive, or to blame others.

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

You will read in the newspaper more often about federal courts, but the law that affects people, the trials that affect human beings are by and large in the state courts

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval.

The blues is not a plaything like some people think they are.

I make a lot of music for different people. My audience is varied so I use different tempos for different music in order to satisfy my many fans.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.

Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

The administration needs to speak honestly with the American people. Exaggerating our progress in defeating the insurgency or in creating an Iraqi army paints a dangerous picture.

We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.

'Family Guy' has this weird thing of attracting people. People either hate it or can't get enough of it. There's really no one in between.

The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent.

I love "Phenomenal Woman." The experiences she had of being African American in the U.S. - that itself is a task. I appreciate the hardships Maya Angelou went through for our generation. I'm super influenced by the black people that paved the way for us.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

I don't think people understand how stressful it is to explain what's going on in your head when you don't even understand it yourself.