People Quotes
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I meet young people all the time who say something like, 'I want to work in venture capital.' And I can see why. Who wouldn't want to be smart, well-paid, dispense large sums of money, and tell people what to do?
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When people praise you, don't let it go to your head. When they criticize you, don't let it go to your heart.
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Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their performance and set a stretch goal to improve it.
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People ask, 'What are the scientific questions you're going to answer?' New Horizons doesn't have any of those; it's purely about raw exploration... We're not 'rewriting the textbook' - we're writing the textbook from scratch.
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If I'm with people who are really positive and go with the flow, that's when the best ideas come out for me.
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The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
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'All people are insane,' he said. 'They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.'
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People who cannot comfortably notice what is going on inside become vulnerable to respond to any sensory shift either by shutting down or by going into a panic—they develop a fear of fear itself.
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I don't like the tendency on the part of so many people today to think that those who don't agree with them are bad. In fact, I find that very dangerous.
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I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.
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You can't change people.
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The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people... have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
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I discovered when I was young that I was not like everyone else, and that was great, because it's the people who are different who bring about change and new things.
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I think everyone needs to know that I steal biscotti on Delta Airlines. People need to know that.
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Pittsburgh isn't fancy, but it is real. It's a working town and money doesn't come easy. I feel as much a part of this city as the cobblestone streets and the steel mills, people in this town expect an honest day's work, and I've it to them for a long, long time.
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I think people have an idea of what Fox News is. If people don't watch Fox News, then it's just a caricature, it's not real, they have it in their heads that it's something very different than what it actually is.
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I was born at a very crucial time. I consider 1968 to be the Mason Dixon line between pre- and post-civil rights generation ideas, whereas a lot of people born before '68 they kind of went into that Moses mentality. Like, I'm not going to make it, you know, I don't have any hope.
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When you're not as accessible, you get in a tent and get in your own head, and you start doing things that are a little out of touch. I think we've seen it happen with certain artists... people can't touch them; they're not touching people. They're only touching people in their circle.
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I'm concerned, as I guess all middle-aged people are, about the younger generations' level of literacy.
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To be able to walk down the street and have people stop you, not just because they recognize you, but because you somehow personally touched them, it's amazing.
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People of this world, look upon this city and see that you should not and cannot abandon this city and this people.
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Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.
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I believe in being a happy conservative: that you're happy because your policies will give people greater freedom, greater independence. But you have to explain why your policy makes life better.
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People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.
