People Quotes - Page 680

It's a useful habit to never believe more than half of what people tell you, and not to concern yourself with the rest. Rather keep your mind free and your path your own.

People often ask why I left CNN.....I didn’t like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting.

Military simulation is an important way of training people for an emergency

Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?

Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.

Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.

Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time these discriminations are incorrect or have little meaning. For example, our habitual way of categorizing people as friends, enemies, and strangers depending on how they make us feel is both incorrect and a great obstacle to developing impartial love for all living beings. Rather than holding so tightly to our discriminations of the external world, it would be much more beneficial if we learned to discriminate between valuable and worthless states of mind.

I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or even as well. I was just adding to the brushpile. So I quit.

People who do well in life understand things that other people don't understand.

Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all.

Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.

The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.

Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that.

The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people.

If you think people are dumb, you'll spend a lifetime doing dumb work.

One of the things cognitive science teaches us is that when people define their very identity by a worldview, or a narrative, or a mode of thought, they are unlikely to change-for the simple reason that it is physically part of their brain, and so many other aspects of their brain structure would also have to change; that change is highly unlikely.

People are all ignorant, they fear new things, they fear knowledge somehow, I don't know why. Everything that I ever learned was always so great. I never thought so at the time, it was just that little bit more in your mind an expansion of consciousness or awareness.

Entrepreneurial knowledge has little to do with certified expertise, advanced degrees, or the learning of establishment schools. The fashionably educated and cultivated spurn the kind of fanatically focused learning commanded by the innovators. Wealth all too often comes from doing what other people consider insufferably boring or unendurably hard.

Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.

A printer publishes a lie: for which he ought to stand in the pillory, for the people believe in and act upon it

Hard work is for people short on talent.

The violence of the Left is symbolic, the injuries are not intended. The violence of the Right is real - directed at people, designed to cause injuries. Vietnam, nuclear weapons, police out of control are intentional forms of violence. The violence from the Right is aimed directly at people and the violence from the Left is aimed at institutions and symbols.

the friend in need is the one who is the friend in deed; ... if people were not friends in need, there was every likelihood that they never would be friends again in any conditions that might obtain.

People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate.

I guess, we were people who just dedicated to trying to get better.