People Quotes
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A corporation that is publicly traded, it has one goal: to make money. It doesn't have a soul. If it does have a soul, it comes from the people who run it.
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I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
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Professional people build relationships by doing the work together.
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The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.
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Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
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You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson or an equation.
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Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.
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'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try and make people laugh rather than being a serious thing.
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I sometimes see People On The Internet decrying work-in-progress tweets and posts as worthless. 'Measuring output by quantity rather than quality is dangerous,' they say. 'More work doesn't mean better work!'
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The way black people feel, especially, is if you're going to tell a black story, let it come from a real place.
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Family is very important to me. People often ask me how I managed to stay grounded and sane, having started as a child star and growing up in the industry, and really, it's God. But it's also my family and God in my family.
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Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.
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I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.
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I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.
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I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.
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Our words tend to conceal what is private and particular in our impressions, and to make us believe that different people live in a common world to a greater extent than is in fact the case.
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Some people just don't want to put in the effort. I just show up and say some lines and I'm famous. Anyone living below the poverty line just needs to shape up or be shipped out, you know?
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We're learning the business, meeting people we need to know, getting knowledgeable about our craft.
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Effectiveness comes from those qualitative things that give you the ability to network, communicate, and lead people toward an outcome they can't see.
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Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.
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At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and you couldn't have planned it. But by making the choice to come to SXSW, I'm increasing the probability of those encounters.
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People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.
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People mess up. They say things when their guard is down.
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In the present 'situation' as the phrase goes, it may be my duty to make some new announcement to the people of the South. I am considering, and shall not fail to act, when satisfied that action will be proper.
