People Quotes - Page 1253

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.

There are surely people in London who would love to play us off against each other. That would be disastrous for the EU.

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

A cult following is a nice way of saying very few people like you.

If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

My mantra is "stay perpendicular." Horizontal is not as good. Half the people that came along and up with with me are either gone to another dimension or don't remember what they had for lunch. I'm fortunate. I don't know why. I just want to have a good time.

I want people to feel good about listening to this [Delta Machine] record, to get some kind of peace. It's just got something magical about it.

If you go into the eastern bloc countries we are huge, and in Russia. Maybe there is something about the depressing nature of our music and lyrics that some people find an affinity with.

Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life into something that is inanimate. You see what a sort of audacious thing it is to move these sort of imaginary people around in a very stylized and patterned world.

My theory is - we don’t really go that far into other people, even when we think we do. We hardly ever go in and bring them out. We just stand at the jaws of the cave, and strike a match, and ask quickly if anybody’s there.

The central trait of sociopathy is a complete lack of conscience, which is very difficult for most people to get their heads around, because those of us who do have a conscience can't really imagine what it would be like if we didn't. Most people think that deep down everybody has a conscience, and it turns out that's just not true.

My anguish came from my hypothesis that other people's hypothetical hypotheses about me mattered. Ridiculous!

Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.

Some people use NVC to respond compassionately to themselves, some to create greater depth in their personal relationships, and still others to build effective relationships at work or in the political arena. Worldwide, NVC is used to mediate disputes and conflicts at all levels.

Classifying and judging people promotes violence.

This objective of getting what we want from other people-or getting them to do what we want them to do-threatens the autonomy of people, their right to choose what they want to do. And whenever people feel that they're not free to choose what they want to do, they are likely to resist, even if they see the purpose in what we are asking and would ordinarily want to do it.

To practice the process of conflict resolution, we must completely abandon the goal of getting people to do what we want.

When people hear needs, it provokes compassion. When people hear diagnoses, it provokes defensiveness and attack.

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams.