People Quotes - Page 856

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

I just feel so much joy and gratitude that people have connected to it in this way. The biggest reward that I could ever get is seeing women, especially black women, talk about what this album ['A Seat at the Table'] has done, the solace it has given them.

Equality means nothing unless incorporated into the institutions.

The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.

More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.

At first I was very anxious about starting Twitter, because I didn't really know what was expected of me. I now feel fairly relaxed, in that's it a way of telling people things that you are doing, without any attempt to be entertaining. To me, even funny people who are tweeting, it just gives a glib impression. You know that it's been constructed, that it's not a thing that's just happened in that moment. So whatever you read, the best you get is, "Eh."

We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.

Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.

It's unhealthy for people to never express any kind of negativity or doubt. To have balance, you need to address that side of your thoughts as well as the positive. Otherwise, you tend toward crazy.

We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.

When more and more people want something, it becomes easier to achieve that goal.

People today are too concerned about saving time and having convenience.

It didn't take me very long to realize that modeling wasn't very satisfying. I was always asking people, "How are you going to set up this shot? How will it be lit?" And they'd say, "Stop. Just pose." I had a problem with that.

Happiness is a social creature. If you try to pursue it in a vacuum, it's very difficult to sustain it. But as soon as you get people focused on creating meaningful connections in the midst of their work, or increasing the meaning and depth of their relationships outside of work, we find happiness rising in step with that social connection.

There are many times when I have to remind myself that people who harm others are coming from a place of profound disconnection. It is not easy to recognize the pain such a person is in, especially because they may not be conscious of it themselves. They may present themselves to the world as just fine. If you believe human beings have a potential for deep connection, wisdom and love; the limitation in those peoples' lives becomes clearer.

We are a very colorful family. Everybody knows our mistakes. But I think that people can relate to all of our mistakes and all or good and bad points.

In a structure as complex as the human brain a multitude of things can go wrong. The wonder is that for most people the brain functions effectively and unceasingly for more than 60 years.

Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records.

I hate people who say 'Just to play devil's advocate.'

Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.

Focus groups are a waste of time, filled with people telling you what you want to hear so they can go home.

In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people.

People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated.

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

I want to serve desserts and pastries that people recognize and love to eat, but sometimes, with an unexpected twist of surprise.