People Quotes - Page 717

I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it.

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.

I've been accused of bad taste, and I'll go down to my grave accused of it and always by the same people, the ones who eat in restaurants that reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say,"God, he said exactly what I was thinking." And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

Mind over matter. Weak minded people are easily influenced. Strong minded people you can't break their will.

Run after God. Be who you're created to be, and you'll run into the people who are doing the same thing, and those are the people that you'll want to be with.

We have to pay attention to one another, regardless of how someone may look or act, look again. Looking at people is like looking at art. I may look at a painting and dislike it because I don't understand it but then I'll look deeper and I'll see things better.

The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.

If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may say, 'I've got a complex strategy. It can't be reduced to a page.' That's nonsense. That's not a complex strategy. It's a complex thought about the strategy.

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

Let's clear one thing up: Introverts do not hate small talk because we dislike people. We hate small talk because we hate the barrier it creates between people.

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.

Droplets, droplets: we are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path.

And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.

Don't wait for people to tell you who you are. Show them.

Don't be different. Different scares people. People won't spend their money on different. They will, however, pay a premium for unique.

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.

But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did , I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.

The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao.

The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.