People Quotes - Page 559

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

I am who I am because of the people who I grew up with and where I'm from.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

The Nazis spoke of having a Jewish problem. We now speak of having a drug-abuse problem. Actually, "Jewish problem" was the name the Germans gave to their persecution of the Jews; "drug-abuse problem" is the name we give to the persecution of people who use certain drugs.

Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.

When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.

There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.

People who wait for a magic wand fail to see that they ARE the magic wand.

Coaching doesn't make sick people well...it helps healthy people become extra-ordinary.

I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things once were, or perhaps, the way they could be, then I've done my job.

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.

The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.

Women are complicated...not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy, and women happen to be people.

All these wars are similar in the way ideology is being used. It's the ideology of so-called humanitarian intervention. We don't want to do this, but we're doing this for the sake of the people who live there. This is, of course, a terrible sleight of hand because all sorts of people live there, and, by and large, they do it to help one faction and not the other.

Beating people up is a positive thing.

I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.

Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.

How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?

People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through -- fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

The greatest force is derived from the power of thought. The finer the element, the more powerful it is. The silent power of thought influences people even at a distance, because mind is one as well as many. The universe is a cobweb; minds are spiders.

The reason I like my job is that I have this desire to create. I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe.

I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use.