People
Definition: Peoples: plural noun and third person present. Human beings in
general or considered collectively. (Of a group of people) inhabit (a place).
Number of Quotes: 145
I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered in
herds, droves, species, in which each individual, while subservient to the mass, retains some distinguishing features. A crowd of people, birds,
insects, or leaves is a mysterious assemblage of variants of certain prototype. A riddle of nature's abhorrence of exact repetition or inability
to produce it. Just as the human hand cannot repeat its own gesture, I invoke this disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a
secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.
Bella Abzug
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
Dean Acheson
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of
publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish
online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web.
Douglas Adams
Hundreds of people who've never written before send in Dr. Who
scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise
is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.
Douglas Adams
I don't think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn't becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it's very new to us.
Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people over the Internet.
Douglas Adams
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
Douglas Adams
I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art
but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is
knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.
Douglas Adams
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do
it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
Of course you can't trust
what people tell you on the web anymore than you can trust
what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who
you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
Douglas Adams
People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of Hitchhiker's,
and I thought, No, no.
I didn't want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another
thing from a book I'd already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.
Douglas Adams
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Franklin P. Adams
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a
conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Franklin P. Adams
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
John Adams
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such
thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
John Adams
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
John Quincy Adams
The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the
United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other.
John Quincy Adams
Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alike. Your dreams of creating a dry-cleaning empire
won't be helped by knowing that Thomas Edison liked to take naps.
Scott Adams
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
Scott Adams
Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
Scott Adams
We don't always have an accurate view of our own potential. I think most people who are frightened of public speaking and can't imagine they might feel
different as a result of training. Don't assume you know how much potential you have. Sometimes the only way to know what you can do is to test yourself.
Scott Adams
You don't have to be a person of influence
to be influential. In fact, the most
influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
Scott Adams
A conference is a gathering of important people who, singly, can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
People will forget what you said
Poeple will forget what you did
But people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
A test of whether you have achieved true fame is when a deranged person believes himself to be you.
BBC Radio Quote ... Unquote
Anonymous
God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good
fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.
BBC Radio Quote ... Unquote
Anonymous
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is
because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin
Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife
said why don't you say you're giving up to devote more time to politics?
. And it is what I have done.
Tony Benn
Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right things.
Warren Bennis
Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have
unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, not should they be.
Warren Bennis
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Aneurin Bevan
Acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose Bierce
The kinds of people we employ are not afraid of taking risks. If someone mucks up, they
don't get a bollocking from me. They know they've mucked up and they redouble their efforts.
Richard Branson
We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?
Richard Branson
The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.
Warren Buffett
If you are having as much fun running a big corporation as you did running a piece of it,
then you are probably interfering too much with the people who really make it happen.
James E. Burke
IBM is like the Stepford Wives. It takes the best people from the best universities and
colleges and then snips out some part of the brain so that they become mindless clones.
Bill Campbell
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you
are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Jimmy Carter
There are two parties involved in every corrupt transaction, typically a government official and a business person. Yet those
who pay bribes are often depicted as innocent victims ... The reality is that both parties conspire to defraud the public.
Lynda Chalker
Love, friendship, respect do not unite people so much as common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.
Anton Chekhov
People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.
City of Glass
Cassandra Clare
There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so
where hate is, fear will be lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity,
our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating.
Analyse in this way the hatred of ideas or of the kind of people whom we have once loved and whose faces are preserved in Spirits of
Anger. Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.
Cyril Connolly
If you treat glass right, it doesn't crack. If you know the properties, you can make things; the color of dusk and night
and love. But you can't control people like that and I really, really wish you could. I want the world to be glass.
Graffiti Moon
Cath Crowley
To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people. I've known sheep that could outwit you.
I've worn dresses with higher IQs. But you think you're an intellectual, don't you, ape?
Jamie Lee Curtis
It's fun to do things that people don't think are possible or likely.
Michael Dell
The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love, lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there
too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up, for ever, on my best affections. Deep affliction has but strengthened and refined them.
Charles Dickens
If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.
Charles Dunstone
People are the lifeblood of any airline, and it is the people of BA who will deliver its future success.
Rod Eddington
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Blameless people are always the most exasperating.
George Eliot
There are many excuses for the persons who made the mistake of confounding money
and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.
Millicent Fawcett
The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God.
For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity.
Anne Frank
The world is full of willing people: some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost
Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft would become an unimportant company.
Bill Gates
You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps ... If the president of a company has a
clean desk ... then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
Harold Geneen
I believe people who think love prevents one from thinking clearly are wrong; for then one thinks very clearly
and is more active than before. And love is something eternal - the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the
same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.
Vincent van Gogh
Everything is always impossible before it works. That is what entrepreneurs are all about - doing what people have told them is impossible.
R. Hunt Greene
I believe in the value of paranoia. Business success contains the seeds of its own destruction. The more successful you
are, the more people want a chunk of your business and then another chunk and then another until there is nothing left.
Andrew Grove
You can't treat your people like an expense item.
Andrew Grove
When it's time to make a decision about a person or problem ... trust your intuition ... act.
Bud Hadfield
For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up
his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.
Edward T. Hall
Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries,
from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person.
Herbie Hancock
Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in
a variety of ways. Where governments are giving up power to big international institutions like the World Trade
Organization or NAFTA, which are disabling governments' ability to protect the rights of their own people.
Noreena Hertz
When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.
Michael D. Higgins
I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.
LL Cool J
I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one
of these people with 50 average people. They could just do stuff that no number of average people could do.
Steve Jobs
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they
just saw something ... That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
Steve Jobs
People are ambitious and unrealistic. They set targets for themselves that are
higher than what you would set for them. And because they set them, they hit them.
Liisa Joronen
I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now,
I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself.
Kehlani
I think leadership is valuing the time you spend with your people more than anything else you do.
Herb Kelleher
The more time I spend with our people, the more I find out about our business.
Herb Kelleher
People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when
the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can't quite name.
Philip Larkin
I understand, of course, that many people find smoking objectionable. That is their right. I would, I assure you, be the very last to criticize the
annoyed. I myself find many - even most - things objectionable. Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one's home. I do not like aftershave
lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation and putting up
signs. In private I avoid such people; in public they have the run of the place. I stay at home as much as possible, and so should they. When it is necessary,
however, to go out of the house, they must be prepared, as I am, to deal with the unpleasant personal habits of others. That is what public
means.
Fran Lebowitz
It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.
Rush Limbaugh
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground, and swish my tail.
Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise
To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys.
Rhys clinked his glass against mine.
To the stars who listen-and the dreams that are answered.
A Court of Mist and Fury
Sarah J. Maas
I don't know any executive who ever thought about stress, although a lot of other people do.
No one ever dies of hard work. But a lot of people die once they retire from an active job.
Ian MacGregor
People often feed the hungry so that nothing may disturb their own enjoyment of a good meal.
W. Somerset Maugham
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on
the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
W. Somerset Maugham
Ordinary people may not understand the meaning of democracy but they've a passionate regard for fair play.
Robert Maxwell
If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organization ... managers must
learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with the ideas.
Mark McCormack
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down.
Wilson Mizner
We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption,
setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.
Evo Morales
Human resources are the greatest assets of any company. You can raise tariffs or prevent
MNCs from entering, but one can't stop the employees from leaving if they are dissatisfied.
Narayana Murthy
I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out
of tune with currency being a carrier of people's cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years.
John Naisbitt
You don't need to interpret the tea leaves stuck in a cup to understand that
people who work sitting down get paid more than those people who work standing up.
Ogden Nash
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow
people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Gloria Naylor
I thought about giving up the sport, but I have a lot of good people around me: my
wife, Nina, my family. Everybody keeps helping me to be positive and moving forward.
Amanda Nunes
A chairman who never wanders about his agency becomes a hermit, out of touch with his staff.
David Ogilvy
If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But
if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.
David Ogilvy
In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous.
Kenichi Ohmae
People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.
John Dos Passos
For the whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their
native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.
Pericles
Winners are people who have fun - and produce results as a result of their zest.
Tom Peters
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Pauline Phillips
It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
Alexander Pope
Acting isn't always about the amount of talent you have, or your ability to cry on command. The point
is, how well can you take direction? How well can you put aside your own ideas or ego and listen to the ideas
of the director and the people above you, while not giving up the passion and drive of that character?
Shannon Purser
The person who knows how
will always have a job. The person who knows why
will always be his boss.
Diane Ravitch
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same persons?
François de La Rochefoucauld
Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
Anita Roddick
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress
the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is
occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.
Hans Rosling
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they don't understand
one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
Helen Rowland
Behind all its global responsibilities and impersonal style banking is still a people business
... it may
be the most personal business of all for it always depends on the original concept of credit, meaning trust.
Anthony Sampson
The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails.
Bernie Sanders to Hillary Clinton, Democratic presidential debate, Las Vegas, October 13, 2015.
Bernie Sanders
The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up
their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.
Bernie Sanders
One can't say that figures lie. But figures, as used in financial arguments, seem to have the bad habit of
expressing a small part of the truth forcibly, and neglecting the other part, as do some people we know.
Fred Schwed
For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, OK, I don't have anything
left.
But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like,
Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.
Bob Seger
I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people.
Jennifer Sky
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But
when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I think giving up people is a difficult thing.
Sissy Spacek
You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you.
Diana Spencer
Ever think of introducing yourself?
Y.T. says.
Nah,
he says, people always forget names. You can just think of me as that one guy, y'know?
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people.
In a remark to V. Stiviano on an audio recording quoted in Los Angeles Times, April 27, 2014.
Donald Sterling
The only people who never make mistakes are those who have never taken a decision.
Jack Straw
I loathe people who keep dogs. They're cowards who have not got the guts to bite people themselves.
August Strindberg
My glasses are from Cutler & Gross. They're not prescription: I just love wearing them. I used to wear Ray-Ban a
lot and then I realised that a lot of the things I've started going for are a little bit more refined. I liked the fact
that I was supporting a British brand, somebody I could have a relationship with and people that I could talk to.
Tinie Tempah
Get to know your people. What they do well, what they enjoy doing, what their
weaknesses and strengths are, and what they want and need to get from their job.
Robert Townsend
One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.
Robert Townsend
All the president is is a glorified PR man who spends his life flattering,
kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S. Truman
He's not a war hero. ... He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured.
Donald Trump on John McCain, interview at Family Leadership Summit, Ames, Iowa, July 18, 2015.
Donald Trump
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.
Mark Twain
It is a free press ... There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's
speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
Mark Twain
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Less good when they obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they fear and despise him.
Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you.
But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, We did this ourselves.
Lao Tzu
I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
Peter Ustinov
My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know
what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.
Pancho Villa
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Alan Watts
If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm
saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
Ai Weiwei
The point of work-out is to give people better jobs. When people see that their ideas
count, their dignity is raised. Instead of feeling numb, like robots, they feel important.
Jack Welch
There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That's a crucial
age, although it's very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see
that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.
Edmund White
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
The most successful people are those who take pride in their work, pride in their family ... It is
great to attain wealth, but money is really just one way - and hardly the best way - to keep score.
Kemmons Wilson
Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.
Walter Winchell
You have to surround yourself with people you trust, and people that are good.
But they also have to be people who will tell the emperor you have no clothes.
Oprah Winfrey
I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my
parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that
was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself.
Reese Witherspoon
A land without a people for a people without a land.
Israel Zangwill
Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn't smooth. You'll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people.
Therefore, if you don't believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don't give up.
Mark Zuckerberg
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