People Quotes - Page 795

People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into the water.

People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing.

As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be too many people doing the same thing.

No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.

People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.

Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy.

The world is good natured to people who are good natured.

I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don't give up, you will still succeed.

Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who are also people of deep religious faith.

Photography is a way of introducing people to other people.

If a subject has a delicate surface to it, you do not want to go charging in there. You need to establish some kind of presence and understanding. I will say, Try to forget I'm here. I won't ask you to pose, I won't ask you to do anything. It's important that I just be allowed to be around, to be present. Photographing people requires a willingness to be rejected. So, I think the best approach is to be honest and direct. Very often, I tell them, You don't know me. There's no reason why you should trust me... the only thing I can promise is that I'll try to do the most honest work I can.

Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it.

Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong by history, culture, deeds, association, and affection.

I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?'

I hate people who act too cool for school. Just own up to it, dude.

It is a remarkable thing that some of the most optimistic and enthusiastic people you will meet are those who have been through intense suffering.

Leadership (according to John Sculley) revolves around vision, ideas, direction, and has more to do with inspiring people as to direction and goals than with day-to-day implementation. A leader must be able to leverage more than his own capabilities. He must be capable of inspiring other people to do things without actually sitting on top of them with a checklist.

The ruling quality of leaders adaptive capacity, is what allows true leaders to make the nimble decisions that bring success. Adaptive capacity is also what allows some people to transcend the setbacks and losses that come with age and to reinvent themselves again and again.

A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far.

The biggest misconception that people have about the literary life is the romance of it. That a writer has this large world available to him or her of people, of ideas, of experiences, of interchange of ideas...

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world

Judging people does not help them.