People Quotes - Page 608

I have a variety of friends I climb with. But the common thing is I trust all of them. They're solid climbers, the sort of people I trust to know what they're doing.

People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.

You can't know who you are, as a nation or a people, unless you know where you've been.

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.

I think that in the end, the people are not fooled by promotion. They want to know that something works and is right.

You can be the happiest you can be in a relationship but can have an urge to be with someone else. I know a lot of people that it has happened to.

What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.

I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few

When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brainthat is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious--to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.

The information is in the people, not in your head.

Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.

I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet

I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.

People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North.

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

Some people need sequins, others don't.

It is people's movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move, how sad would be the tree - and so should we.

I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.

We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of young people who are terrified of silence, of being alone with their own thoughts.