Quotes About People

I have great respect for the people in intelligence and CIA. I don't have a lot of respect for in particular one of the leaders. But that's OK. But I have a lot of respect for the people in the CIA.

We sit for a week and listen to an extraordinary amount of people talk about what they do in the intelligence world. It's pretty overwhelming.

There is the will of the people, there is the will of the mind! Always be at the side of the second one! The first one contains mostly stupidity; the second one contains always intelligence.

If there were 'intelligence flu', there would be so many people walking around in the damn cold weather, hoping to be contaminated by that flu!

I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.

Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.

Jealousy is a normal human emotion. When people act on that emotion, they then become a hater.

Millions upon millions will attain your ceremony, but don't think all of them are in a ceremonius mood.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.

Kindness is a calling. Caring about people is powerful. Love changes lives.

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

Kindness can change the lives of people.

The kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need.

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.

Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

Knowledge empowers people. If people know the rules, and are sensitized by art, humor, and creativity, they are much more likely to accept change.

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.