People Quotes - Page 1374

The media is putting a lot of emphasis on the few people that are destroying, while it won't report on the silent majority of people who are constructing, building and trying to find their way.

Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen.

What gives me the greatest satisfaction is the number of people I can affect with my gift, with what I do. That's the most important thing to me, more important than any trophy or award.

Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.

The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.

I don't like beating up people in my hometown. I like to go to their hometown, so they can see what they're all about.

Sweetheart, never listen to what my enemies say. They're very confused people. I know they are because I've spent years making them that way.

I used to think of two people in love like that. Like puzzle pieces, fitting together. But it's not like that at all. Love pulls a part of you out, and it pulls a part of him - like taffy, stretching but not separating. The tendrils of each one wrap around the other, until they meld together. One, but not quite. Separate, but not quite.

People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.

One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.

It's not that I'm deliberately trying to shock people all the time. I'm just doing things that are obvious to me. It's because the public doesn't understand my way of thinking that they get surprised.

Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.

Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.

When you have a policy of making sure that African Americans cannot build wealth, of plundering African American communities of wealth, giving opportunities to other people, it's only right that you might want to, you know, pay that back.

I don't think there's anything wrong with sitting down with people as long as you understand that there are needs to be met and purposes to be served.

When you ask me who I look up to and who I can admire for their style right now, I have to choose from people that represent what I represent stylistically.

I got most of my style from people around me who I knew personally.

Get really rich and then help the people who didn't have the opportunity you did.

Rich people...take responsibility for the results in their lives and act upon the mind-set "It will work because I'll make it work."

Rich people collect land. Poor people collect bills.

Resenting promotion is one of the greatest obstacles to success. People who have issues with selling and promotion are usually broke.

Poor people choose to play the role of the victim.

Rich people are committed to enough to do whatever it takes. Period.

Many successful people have fear, along with doubts and worries. The difference is that those who know how to succeed also know how to take action despite these worries and fears. You too can learn how to master fear, by understanding that fear is in our own minds, and therefore under our own control.

People are so afraid of hearing "No" that they often don't even try. You have nothing to lose by just asking! A good friend of mine once told me, "Harv, a closed mouth won't get fed." Open your mouth! Say something if negotiations aren't going the way you'd like.