Quotes About People

All terrific but the people. THE PEOPLE. Everyone looks so exalted, or so wretched, or so spiffy, so funny, so splendid. If you are ever bored or blue, stand on the street corner for half an hour.

It's too bad war makes people disappear like chess pieces, and that prisons turn prisoners into movie endings.

Maybe one reason so many people have so many problems is that there are so many other people with so many solutions. (Love on a Gunboat)

Treece quite seriously divided the world into writers, who led life as a conscious effort, and people, and people who didn't; sometimes he preferred writers and sometimes he preferred people.

There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.

The talent myth assumes that people make organizations smart. More often than not, it's the other way around.

You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle who do the actual work in the world.

How good people's decisions are under the fast-moving, high-stress conditions of rapid cognition is a function of training and rules and rehearsal.

The deceptions of Ana Montes and Bernie Madoff, the confusion over Amanda Knox, the plights of Graham Spanier and Emily Doe are all evidence of the underlying problem we have in making sense of people we do not know. Default to truth is a crucially important strategy that occasionally and unavoidably leads us astray. Transparency is a seemingly commonsense assumption that turns out to be an illusion. Both, however, raise the same question: once we accept our shortcomings, what should we do?

The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.

Perhaps the most common—and the most important—forms of rapid cognition are the judgments we make and the impressions we form of other people. Every waking minute that we are in the presence of someone, we come up with a constant stream of predictions and inferences about what that person is thinking and feeling

So that then begins a sort of rethinking of my idea of criminology," Weisburd said. "Like most other people, my studies were about people. I said, maybe we ought to be more concerned with places.

Epidemics are a function of the people who transmit infectious agents, the infectious agent itself, and the environment in which the infectious agent is operating.

with his trademark counterintuitive logic how the habits of highly successful people pale in

Toate veÅŸtile noi sunt veÅŸti vechi care se întâmpl? unor oameni noi.

I tend to think of all new voices as a potential for failure, and all the people I've worked with before as the greatest potential for success.

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

We aren't protecting the people who most need it when those who can contribute to the country's success emigrate. Contrary to what some claim, I am not getting rid of the wealth tax to help the rich.

In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

Happy people is a great hope to all the unhappy people because a path of success can always be used by the people who couldn't find such a path yet!

When people support you when you have done something wrong. It doesnt mean you are right, but it means those people are promoting their hate, bad behavior or living their bad lives through you.

To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch ofundeserving people.

Underachieving people, use little chitchats had with successful people as gate passes to obtain entrance into places their reputation cannot get them.