People Quotes - Page 1251

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

There are people who are like monkeys in a cage just hitting the coke button. They don't really get that for [musicians and artists] to do these things, they have to fund them. They have to have something to pay the rent.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are the words at our backs. The idioms for revenge are 'report a crime' and 'report to five families.' The reporting is the vengeance-not the beheading, not the gutting, but the words.

Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people.

People say 'follow in the footsteps' but I always find that a strange expression because what you want to do is forge your own path, so to speak.

We see a decline of civility, and, sadly, it’s often modeled by the very people from whom we have the least right to expect it.

The simple act of recognizing diversity in corporate life helps us to connect the great variety of gifts that people bring to the work and service of the corporation.

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.

There's not many people on the face of the earth that don't know Harry Potter is Daniel Radcliffe. He's had that since he was eleven years old, yet he hasn't changed since the day I met him.

Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.

The pace of change for entrepreneurs is rapidly accelerating, and the cost and risk of launching a new business and getting off the ground is just amazing. The ability to gain user feedback really quickly and adapt to what your consumers want is totally different with the web as it is now. But finding a new market, helping people and taking that original idea and turning it into a business is really exciting right now.

When people start to write articles about what might be wrong with the 'Today' show you know where you should point the finger, point it at me because I have been there the longest. And it's my responsibility.

Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.