People Quotes - Page 1176

It's amazing because people come up to me and say, 'Chuck, you're the luckiest guy in the world to be a world karate champion and a movie and TV star.' When they say this to me, I kind of smile because luck had nothing to do with it; God had everything to do with it.

I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25, and it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film.

There's a one in six billion chance you're gonna find your soul mate. But, maybe, your perfect soul mate is actually three or four half perfect people. How far are you willing to go to actually find that perfect somebody... ies. If you're not willing to make a group of people your soul mate then you'd better plan on being alone. You'll always have television.

Today I want to puke when I hear the word 'radical' applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.

Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.

Most people don't walk around knowing what other people think about them, and I don't think it's healthy to know what faceless strangers who you'll never meet say about you.

I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.

I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

Autonomous people, nations, and systems can promote each other's welfare; they do not have to fight each other like those whose inner insecurity and immaturity continually demand the demarcation of limits and postures of intimidation.

I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people.

You see people waving. You dont see people having problems, with each other at least.

Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components- anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain-wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain.

The big challenge for me was just trying to ignore the embarrassment of being an actor. It's a pretty embarrassing thing to do. You've got people pointing cameras at you and hundreds of people watching you, as you're trying to be great. And often, almost every time, you're not.

People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I've always had to fight for everything that I have.

I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.

People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.

Good leadership means leading the way, not hectoring other people to do things your way.

The best advice I've gotten in terms of that was someone who said, "People will surprise you if you let them."

It's Not My Job To Try To Persuade People To Love Me, It's Only To Try To Make Them Love The Music

Tell more people that you love them.You never know how much they might need it.

We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can't do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We have to see our gut, our excrement, our most undesirable parts. We have to see them. That is the foundation of warriorship, basically speaking. Whatever is there, we have to face it, we have to look at it, study it, work with it and practice meditation with it.

What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.