People Quotes

• When you are younger, you worry about what people think about you. When you are older, you realize that no one was ever thinking about you at all.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Thinking
  • Worry
  • Realizing

• The people who built Silicon Valley were engineers. They learned business, they learned a lot of different things, but they had a real belief that humans, if they worked hard with other creative, smart people, could solve most of humankind's problems. I believe that very much.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • People
  • Engineers
  • Silicon Valley

• People think I get this free wardrobe but, sadly, that's not the case. I sometimes sell my unwanted clothes and shoes at car-boots so I can buy more - that's my guilty secret.

  

  Nicki Chapman
  • Thinking
  • Wardrobe
  • Unwanted

• I had an advantage because people would post me on blogs because I had co-signs from Kanye West, Def Jam, and G.O.O.D. Music. Everything I put out, the blogs would put up. When I realized that, I used that to my advantage and helped build my following on my own.

  

  Big Sean
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to know people are listening.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Listening
  • Selling
  • Acclaim

• When people praise you, don't let it go to your head. When they criticize you, don't let it go to your heart.

  

  Cecil Rhodes
  • People
  • Heart
  • Praise

• Our success just flies in the face of critics or people who would rather that we just failed... because we didn't fit into the style of the times or our lyrics were too upfront or too earnest or whatever.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Success
  • Style
  • Lyrics

• To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.

  

  Scott Stossel
  • May
  • Calm
  • Ducks

• I always want to be a part of ensembles. Besides it feeling safer, I think it's a more fun environment to work in. To have a bunch of people collaborating on something, it takes the pressure off of each individual.

  

  Megan Fox
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Feeling

• I believe I can do it, but one of the reasons I don't really get into the debate is people keep talking about a black James Bond: how a black man should play him.

  

  Colin Salmon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Black

• I don't want to look at myself like I'm some superhero. But I'm not going to let people wipe their feet on football on my chest.

  

  Jon Gruden
  • People
  • Football
  • Superhero

• We are little animals walking on the ground, we have a certain life time, we are acting and interacting with different people, and we are trying to build things, but we are just some sort of virus compared to the entire sky. You always have to remember that the moon, the earth, the sun, they are like the real universal objects. We are just passing by, and it makes life more beautiful to think that way. More relaxing to think that way, that nothing is really important, because you give yourself much more confidence and you forgive yourself more things when you think about that.

  

  Jean-Benoît Dunckel Air
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

  

  Michael Korda
  • Freedom
  • Failure
  • Succeed

• Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

  

  Lawrence Welk
  • People
  • God
  • Trust

• Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Perfect
  • Fashion
  • Fool

• No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.

  

  Alan Bates
  • People

• People's interest in glamour and clothes and nylon stockings and all those things were, when I was a little boy, the sort of world that I listened to.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • People
  • World
  • Boy

• Growing up it was the exception because I was maybe the only one in my school or my circle of friends that had that experience. But now that I know more people in the industry, I am realizing this happens to almost everybody.

  

  Anna Chlumsky
  • Up
  • School
  • Experience

• I realized relatively early on that I had no desire to be a mother whatsoever. I actually love children, but specifically other people's.

  

  Cindy Gallop
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Desire

• Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.

  

  J. G. Farrell
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• I want to tell stories powerful people don't want you to tell. It's not worth getting out of bed otherwise.

  

  John Sweeney
  • People
  • Powerful

• Tony Blair was a good politician but not a good Prime Minister, and that's what we don't want to be. We don't want to be just people who are good at winning elections: we want to be good at governing. I think we benefit from having seen the mistakes that we think Tony Blair made in 1997.

  

  George Osborne
  • People
  • Good
  • Winning

• I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.

  

  Kevin Garnett
  • Giving
  • Shoes
  • Perception

• The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

  

  Mary Frances Berry
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

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