People Quotes - Page 56

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in a personal way... you can make a point without being personal. Don't insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less

No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.

Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people chose Barabbas.

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

I don't care what people think about me. Never did, never will. Life is too short to be worrying about that shit.

It's easy to get people's attention, what counts is getting their interest.

You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

The will of the people is the best law.

One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason.

A leader's job is not just to get the best out of their people-a leader's job is to make more leaders.

I thought about all the people that told me I couldn't do it and told me I couldn't get there.

Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.

The secret must be kept from all non-people. The mystery must be hidden from all idiots.

Whenever you create a universal device that does all things for all people, it does not do any things well.

Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.

You live more for 5 minutes going fast on a bike than other people do in all of their life.

Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.

You know how a lot of people say, 'I lose myself in music,' or 'I like to escape,' but I want my music to be more of an awakening. I want it to make people to be aware of life; I don't want my music to be a distraction. I want to light a path.

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

I think people, if you really want to be happy, you have to find God yourself, and you're going to have to have a personal, one-on-one relationship and not look to get through these traditions or these rituals and all this crazy stuff when you could talk to him right here, right now, anytime, anywhere, any place, from any position. And that's the kind of relationship you want, not a standard.

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.