People Quotes - Page 732

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we’re more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

The only reason I was able to accomplish things is the great people willing to work with me. A company is a group of people organized to create a product or service, and that product or service is only as good as the people in the company - and how excited they are about creating it. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. Without them, I would have accomplished very little. I just happen to be the face of the companies.

Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.

This is Hollywood. People don't admit mistakes.

It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people.

What would people look like if we could see them as they are, soaked in honey, stung and swollen, reckless, pinned against time?

It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.

Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.

Paul Ryan looks around, sees three unemployed workers for every job opening in America, and blames the people who can't find a job.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.

I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.

I think that, back in the day, there used to be a lot of horror films that kind of had a checklist of what went into making the 'perfect horror film', and I think now people are raising the bar in the industry, as far as the types of horror films that are being made.

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.

Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.

To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

I shall go so far that people will be seized with terror at the sight of each of my works of 'living' art.

When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done!

In general, I think audiences are a lot smarter than people think. So, it's not "know your audience", it's "respect your audience, and really know your content".

When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.

I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.

There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do.