Quotes About People

Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

It is difficult to find another branch of knowledge where a small amount of study produces such great results in increased efficiency in a country where the people rule, as in parliamentary law.

The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

If people do not revere the Law of Nature It will adversely affect them. If they accept It with knowledge and reverence, It will accommodate them with balance and harmony.

Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a shortage of gaps in people's knowledge.

People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.

In the universe, there is darkness and light. We call this duality. When you seek knowledge and power, there are forces and people that will oppose you.

Expand within your church. Expand within the people you have contact. Bring them up to speed in knowledge on what's going on.

I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform.

More I get to know people, the more I tend to end up odd.

I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.

After the Shah's departure from Iran, I will not become a president nor accept any other leadership role. Just like before, I limit my activities only to guiding and directing the people.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.

The best way to lead people into the future is to connect with them deeply in the present.

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.