People Quotes - Page 1395

Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired.

The best leaders lift people up versus tear people down.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

So, yes, we do celebrate America today because the majority will stand up and empower the American people to live that American Dream and to be part of making a better, freer, and safer world.

By putting the gift of yearning for God into every human being's heart, God at the same time draws all people made in God's image to God's self and into their own true selves.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.

The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

We are creating a one size fits all system that needlessly brands many young people as failures, when they might thrive if offered a different education whose progress was measured differently. Paradoxically we're embracing standardized tests just when the economy is eliminating standardized jobs.

If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.

Utah is changing. There are good people in Utah. More people want to change the discriminatory laws than want to keep them. People should be able to marry whomever they love.

It's a great kindness to trust people with a secret. They feel so important while telling it.

People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.

They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people.

It’s funny now, trying to socialise with people. There’s this cautiousness about people which I just find really weird.

There were the events of 1968 when young people began to ask their parents, what did you do in the war? And since the middle- or late-'70s, the French have been absolutely obsessed with the Vichy regime. They have an institute of contemporary history that turns out first-rate scholarly work. Their textbooks are accurate. Whether the students actually read them is another matter.

Whoever makes something having bought or contracted for all other held resources used in the process (transferring some of his holdings for these cooperating factors), is entitled to it. The situation is not one of something's getting made, and there being an open question of who is to get it. Things come into the world already attached to people having entitlements over them.

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated.

People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

You make the work for yourself first and the next line is the people you trust, and you know that they're going to tell you what they feel. They let you know if you're dishing bullshit or if it's real.