People Quotes - Page 1425

Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions. Not me. I don't want to be a manager or a dictator. I want to be a leader-and leadership is ongoing, adjustable, flexible, and dynamic. As such, leaders have to maintain a certain amount of discretion

I want to be bigger than everybody else, but I wouldn't want to be so big that people can't accept it. For instance, if you come in with 30-inch-arms, even your own peers aren't going to accept that. I wouldn't want to be that way. I wouldn't want to infinitely become unreal.

It's not a question of doing the best thing for the environment - the best thing for the environment is for people to stop using vast amounts of energy.

The military is not a social experiment. The purpose of the military is kill people and break things.

People of faith feel responsible for God's world.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

Every comedian comes to a fork in the road where they have to decide if they're going to make jokes about other people or make jokes about themselves. I chose myself.

Socializing is more positive than being alone, that's why meetings are so popular. People don't like being alone. That would be, however, an important skill to learn.

People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.

If I had to express in one word what makes their [creative individuals'] personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual," each of them is a "multitude."

The enormously diverse culture where people can agree and disagree is just amazing, and to learn about the events that took place here over millennia has been fantastic. It's a trip I'll never forget.

Great people create great acts of kindness.

Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.

Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.

Girls Who Rocked the World is full of inspiring stories about young women who demonstrate that people of all ages have the power to create change in the world.

Many people have fond memories of 'The Monkees.' I fondly remember it, too.

People ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out of the question."

What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.

I knew what I was doing, but I never really considered the magnitude of how my images were transformative to people.