People Quotes - Page 80

An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.

I am more interested in what moves people, than how they move.

Learning organizations organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together.

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

Leadership is not just about giving energy ... it's unleashing other people's energy.

I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.

The quality of your attention determines the quality of other people's thinking.

When everyone is part of the people's congress, what need is there for an opposition? Opposition to what? You oppose a government! If there is no government, and the people govern themselves on their own, what are they going to oppose? Something that isn't there?

Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order not to corrupt themselves with the useless conversation of idle people, and debase the intellect from the lofty imaginations in which they are always absorbed.

I'll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.

The important thing is to realize that no matter what people's opinions may be, they're only just that - people's opinions. You have to believe in your heart what you know to be true about yourself. And let that be that.

Listen to your own voice, your own soul. Too many people listen to the noise of the world, instead of themselves.

People need to know what's going on. People need to wake up.

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

Pick a destination, go there, be open-minded and talk to the locals. Eat the things they eat and go where they go. You don't need to be fluent, just as long as you've got a smile on your face- people will be jumping over themselves to show you the stuff they're proud of.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.