People Quotes - Page 757

If people believe they can be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and they have no control over outside circumstances, those thoughts of fear, separation, and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people

Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.

Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.

Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

You got to be willing to walk in a storm. That's what I tell people all the time.

The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological evolution and has extended through human-directed technological evolution. however, it is precisely in the world of matter and energy that we encounter transcendence, a principal connotation of what people refer to as spirituality.

People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.

One of the greatest sources of problems in our society arises from people having loads of wrong theories in their heads - often theories that are critical of others - that they won't test by speaking to the relevant people about them. Instead, they talk behind people's backs, which leads to pervasive misinformation.

Evolution is the only thing that exists through time. That is true for computers, or people, or a business. We tend to see things in a static way, and so you see what is. Even in looking at ourselves, what we really are is essentially vessels for our DNA that keeps evolving through time. So seeing that and embracing that reality, and thinking of everything as kind of this perpetual motion machine in which you embrace reality - you don't wish it was different. You realize that it's your puzzle to interact with. You interact with it well, you evolve yourself.

George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers.

The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.

Nothing will infect you with a negative view of the world faster than hanging around people with harmful belief systems.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

The people do not mind fornication but they loathe adultery.

You should thank the people who bring out the worst in you. Had it not been for them, you would never have come to know of your worst side.

When there is no vision, people perish.

You never know how you look through other people's eyes.

In the meantime the big corporations are fleeing America for tax havens and places like Ireland, Luxembourg and the Grand Cayman Islands; the rich are finding more tax loopholes to expect; so when are the people going to basically roll up their sleeves and say, we've had enough, we're going to recapture Congress.

But people find it very difficult to be a loving person, so they create a relationship - and befool that way that 'Now I am a loving person because I am in a relationship.' And the relationship may be just one of monopoly, possessiveness, exclusiveness.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

Sometimes you can make a substantial amount of money and automatically think that you've made it, that you did everything you wanted to do. Some people just stop.

I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before in fiction.

Eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want to be writers, and they're gonna do it. Those people who know that they really want to do this and are cut out for it, they know it.