People Quotes - Page 692

Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.

I want to be able to make people laugh as hard as they possibly can, and I really think they need that.

I would never call people that are born in America who are from Mexico terror babies.

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.

Shanghainese people are good negotiators, they're very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that - very competitive. That becomes part of your personality, Shanghai personality becomes part of yours.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

Children are like grown people; the experience of others is never of any use to them.

People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by.

There's a way to preach the Bible unbiblically...You can use the Bible as the springboard for all kinds of ideas, can't you? Look around in here and find something that fits your fancy and then launch a rocket off it. People say, 'That was amazing, wasn't it? Remarkable what he got out of that.' Well of course it is because he put it in before he got it out.

I loved meditation. I love it because that's where you find what your voice is. You cannot really find it easily in this culture. This culture is the noisiest culture ever, ever. I think the damage that it has done to people is in that realm of silencing them. They are overwhelmed by gadgets. They don't know what to think because they're so heavily programmed about what it is that they should want and should think.

I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; they show my innocent beginnings in a small town. Life is a sentence -- you live it out. Maybe these portraits jump out at you too much. People like things that conform.

[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .

It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.

The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws.

In the service of the people we followed such a policy that socialism would not lose its human face.

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

Show people your stuff, listen carefully to their responses, but ultimately don't value anyone's opinion above your own. Be influenced by writers you dislike as well as writers you like. Read their stuff to figure out what's wrong. Find a balance between the confidence that allows you continue, and the self-critical facility that enables you to improve. Get the balance wrong on either side, and you're screwed.

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

All creative people hate mathematics. It's the most uncreative subject you can study.

People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. If war, waste, and moneylenders were abolished, you'd collapse. And while you people are overconsuming the rest of the world sinks more and more deeply into chronic disaster.

Really good portraiture is a two-way street where someone is throwing little gems out and you're grabbing them. Very few people have a 100 percent fluency in being able to do to do this - this kind of magical reaction with a camera.

Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect.