People Quotes
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I don't think most people know how to meditate - they fall asleep and they call it meditation.
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I've played killers, crazies, and really bad people.
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I wondered how that felt, to really like yourself. And I wondered why some people didn't like themselves and others did. Maybe that's just the way it was.
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I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.Muste, for example.
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We are born intuitive, which is why for most people, their intuition is actually the source of their greatest suffering.
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Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.
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I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.
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The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we've learned about love.
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I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.
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But hey, if that’s too much to ask, tell them to just become Christians—you know, the people who get to go to heaven without having to commit to anything
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I think the term "interbeing" has cropped up in a lot of places. It's in the atmosphere, because it's just so true, and the time for that truth to be revealed to mass society is here. It's like in those French bakeries where they don't need to add yeast to the dough, because the yeast is so ambient in the air that the dough gets quickened whether or not you add yeast to it. Many people, even without doing a whole lot of study and reading, are coming to the same kinds of conclusions and perceptions about the world as I am.
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But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.
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You should always love people and use money rather than the other way around.
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We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.
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Historical fiction is a collaboration between the time in which it's written and the time that it's writing about and the far future, when we don't know what people are going to think about yet.
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People are stupider than anybody.
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There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.
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People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.
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What marketers used to do is make average products for average people. That's what mass marketing is. They would ignore the geeks, and - God forbid - the laggards. It was all about going for the center. I don't think that's the strategy we want to use anymore.
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In any open question, we should argue from what we do know to what we do not know. We do know that fervent legends and stubborn myths arise easily and naturally. We do not know that dead people rise from the grave.
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At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.
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I get slightly irritated by people who say they're natural rebels because it just means that they're going to be against whatever anybody does, which is almost like saying you might as well leave it as it is. I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law. I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.
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It's not that tens of millions of people all want to be violent. But they share the worldview that then, at its extreme, gives rise to the violence. And in my view, this is why this is such a global problem.
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There is secrecy and betrayal but that's more part and parcel of the kind of anguish that the people go through. And maybe that's modes of survival, rather than modes of consciousness.
