People Quotes - Page 1401

I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take a league. I think, as I did when I wrote The God Delusion, that the Roman Catholic Church is a disgusting institution, the second most evil religion in the world.

There is a tendency for people to say evolution is only a theory. That is inappropriate.

I don't shout people down. I argue people down, perhaps.

It's known that stress gives rise to disease. It's also known that many diseases, especially stress-related diseases, can be cured by placebos - pills that have no medicinal effect, but people think they do, and so they do.

I find that religion really does motivate people to do horrible things because they have this passionate faith in whatever their religion happens to be, and it teaches them that the other religion is the wrong one.

[It] is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.

I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

From the first days of my career as an entrepreneur, I have always used my own and my team's lack of experience to our advantage. In fact, at our first venture, Student magazine, we used our newcomer status to secure great interviews and generate publicity - people were excited about our new project and wanted to get involved. Our inexperience fed our restless enthusiasm for trying new things, which became part of our core mission.

The important thing is that you've got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people.

When you are ready to make your first hires, look for people who understand your passion, want to add to your ideas and can envision ways to make improvements.

If you get your face and your name out there enough, people will start to recognize you.

The truth is this: the Earth cannot provide enough food and fresh water for 10 billion people, never mind homes, never mind roads, hospitals and schools.

I am a believer in trying to treat people properly and trying to respond and making sure that I find the time to be courteous.

We should focus on what people get done, not on how many hours or days worked. Just as we don't have a nine-to-five policy, we don't need a vacation policy.

If I'm setting up a new business I'll spend three or four months learning everything there is about that business, everything there is about that subject and then I will find good people to run it on a day-to-day basis, but whilst they're running it at least I know what they're talking about when they come back to me.

A business is simply an idea to make other people's lives better.

Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap.

Speak to your people as to men that must be awakened, either here or in hell.

There's people been friendly But they'd never be your friends Sometimes this has bent me to the ground

People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again.