People Quotes - Page 1369

I like people who don't take themselves too seriously.

A lot of people recognize me or feel that they know me. A lot of times when I speak, they recognize my voice. It's fun, it's exciting. It's always good feedback.

I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger.

If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you're asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.

I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)

The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them.

Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people.

We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to be formed as preachers.

Sometimes, people aren't as consciously aware of their decisions as they should be.

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners.

I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.

I think people are very focused on the economic issues. They want an economy that works for everybody.

I'm very open to any visual conceits and any possibilities at my disposal to be better explain to people the ideas I'm exploring.

Life is a big collaboration - and when you're tackling something that is painful and troubling and is causing you such desperate grief that you think life's not worth living - you need to reach out. To people who will reach back.

I'm constantly correcting young people and fashion students in this nation when they say "Well, I do couture." By definition, you don't. You have to be licensed by the government of France to do couture. So don't use that term. You can say that you do one-of-a-kind, you can say it's custom, but you can't say it's couture - because it's inaccurate.

The most important role models in people's lives, it seems, aren't superstars or household names. They're "everyday" people who quietly set examples for you-coaches, teachers, parents. People about whom you say to yourself, perhaps not even consciously, "I want to be like that."

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.

People don't want to be millionaires - they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.

Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It's really that easy - and that's what I do.

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of a failed outdoor story. One is the phony epiphany on the mountain top.