People Quotes - Page 1091

There are a lot of talkers in the world. There are a lot of people who know what’s right and what’s powerful, yet still aren’t producing the results they desire. It’s not enough to talk the talk. You’ve got to walk the talk

We live in a culture that expects instantaneous gratification for everything, and the web has only enhanced that in many ways. It empowers in many ways, but it also makes people believe 'I should have everything right now.'

Resourcefulnes s is the cure to failure. Successful people are resourceful and find a way to make it work.

I think the most important thing is just if you hire people whose personal values match the corporate core values - and not just the stated ones.

I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead and to decide. I was now studying the third: how to take the calculated risk. I was going to alienate some people, like it or not. The moment you decide, you divide.

When I go to see live music I tend to want to really listen to it, so when people get up and dance it's really irritating.

I'm not a showbiz person. I just enjoy talking nonsense on the radio. I'm not bothered about going to clubs or the paparazzi, I genuinely prefer my neighbours. Spending time with my family and watching Coronation Street are what I love best. People are just people, aren't they?

I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.

There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.

Home is memory, home is your history, home is where you work. Some people want to abandon it and become truly local. But the questions are all there.

Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious.

If you work hard everyday and bust your tail on every play, eventually people will notice and word will get around.

And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking money to him. I said 'Do you earn a living doing that?' He said 'Yes, this my livelihood.'

We're actors. We're the opposite of people.

Maybe some people got sick, but what I saw was people applauding the effects. When the helicopter zombie stood up, people applauded. When a guy gets the top of his head lopped off, are they applauding that some horrible thing happened to a person, or are they applauding how it was technically pulled off in a realistic way?

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity.

People have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies.

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other people wouldn't let him.

The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people.

People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.

I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.

Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.

It's really never fair to judge people because none of us know what's going on inside anyone else's head.