Quotes About People

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

Our Feast gatherings, which has spread all over the world, is attended by young people - and they love to sing worship songs.

I would assume most people hate my character. But I'm hoping that I'm the character you love to hate.

We need to love people with our deeds AND our words because sharing the Good News is a process, not just an event.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

I hate people but I love gatherings.

I'm definitely a people person. I love socializing and being around people and having a good conversation.

The questions I would have liked to ask people were: 'Are you in love? What are you reading?

I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.

I stand between these two attractive people as something of an oddity, like the guy taking the light readings at a photo shoot, miraculously connected to both of them, conspicuously average; the man in the middle.

you don't have to live in community long to realize that lives which are blessed and instructive are still flawed. The grace of the gospel isn't only that the Word was made flesh in Jesus, but also that the eternal Word is made present in weak and wonderful people.

recalled a quote I picked up somewhere: "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Tijd was ook maar een afspraak, gemaakt door gewone mensen die een gewone wereld wilden.

The fact that power plays a role in human motivation does not mean that it plays the only role, or even the primary role ... Beware of single cause interpretations--and beware the people who purvey them.

If you surround yourself with people who support your upward aim, they will not tolerate your cynicism and destructiveness. They will instead encourage you when you do good for yourself and others and punish you carefully when you do not.

I believe that the good that people do, small though it may appear, has more to do with the good that manifests broadly in the world than people think, and I believe the same about evil. We are each more responsible for the state of the world than we believe, or would feel comfortable believing.

it is so easy for us to demonize those people who are our enemies because our enemies confront us with what we don't want to see. And because of that our first response is to use snake detection circuitry on them.

And why does it so often seem to be the very people standing so visibly against prejudice who so often appear to feel obligated to denounce humanity itself?

I couldn't understand how belief systems could be so important to people that they were willing to risk the destruction of the world to protect them. I came to realize that shared belief systems made people intelligible to one another—and that the systems weren't just about belief.

The ideologue begins by selecting a few abstractions in whose low-resolution representations hide large, undifferentiated chunks of the world. Some examples include "the economy," "the nation," "the environment," "the patriarchy," "the people," "the rich," "the poor," "the oppressed," and "the oppressors.

If you do so, you will run right into the iteration problem, because "happy" is a right-now thing. If you place people in situations where they are feeling a lot of positive emotion, they get present-focused and impulsive.

I couldn't understand how belief systems could be so important to people that they were willing to risk the destruction of the world to protect them.

If you are suffering—well, that's the norm. People are limited and life is tragic. If your suffering is unbearable, however, and you are starting to become corrupted, here's something to think about.

The higher good would be the simultaneous optimization of your function and the function of the people around you, across time, as we have discussed previously.