David Korten Quotes
It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.
Quotes to Explore
-
Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
-
It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
-
People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
-
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
-
When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'
-
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
-
Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
-
My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.
-
It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.
-
Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
-
Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
-
Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.
-
I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
-
I love people who dress how they feel and change it depending on the day.
-
We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
-
I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
-
To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.
-
I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
-
Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.
-
Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you.
-
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
-
Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white.
-
As a parent myself, I can appreciate the MPAA and what they're supposed to do, but what happens with NC-17 is that the MPAA is basically taking away the rights of parents. They're basically telling me that I can't show my kids this movie if I decide they can see it.
-
It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.
