Quotes About People

I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book for felt communion, the bright largesse of intimately participating in the lives of other people.

I believe that when it comes to the creation of Sankalp Patra, India in its history has never seen such participation of people.

Due to Modi ji's leadership, people's participation in building a base for inclusive growth and a strong country became possible.

Republican liberty depends on citizen participation, on a government that is of, for, and by the people.

In the late 19th century, Russian Cosmists such as Nikolai Fyodorov believed we need to go to space to collect all the particles of all the people who had ever lived. Cosmism says going into space is going into the past.

Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.

I hate parties. I don't like big crowded things.

It's awkward going to parties with people you don't know, especially when they think they know you.

One of the things in my experience about changing parties: There are very few exceptions to the general rule. And the general rule has been, people are going to invite you into the church, but they are not going to make you a deacon.

Most people make poor partners because their mental script has a defect. They believe focus means looking after their own interests. It's a script error.

It's hard to find good business partners and people who do good business the right way.

We're in the business of influence. And if we're going to be in partnership with anybody, I want it to be with people who have amazing access and influence.

This idea of mutual appreciation and partnerships and investment in our people is very important to me and will continue to be important.

You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.

Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.

The American people are opposed to ObamaCare. They were when the law passed; they're still opposed to it. But the fact of the matter is it's got to be implemented. We're trying to do our part even here in Nebraska. It's very, very difficult.

What people are seeing is that the cost of their care and their insurance is going up faster since Obamacare has been passed than if the healthcare law had not been passed at all.

Our church was a very spiritual church, and we were a very chosen people. The body was small, but the spirit was intense and very evident to anyone who passed by or came in.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

The only scholarship that has any merit, I suppose, is what is useful to other people as well as oneself. The most meritorious of all is what is useful to other scholars, sometimes for generations.

In order to improve conditions on Earth, people must love. Love satisfies every need. It contains all good conditions and possibilities. It is a mighty transformer of all forces. A special light emanates from the person who has been visited by love. (14)

When people who are actually creating a system start to see themselves as the source of their problems, they invariably discover a new capacity to create results they truly desire.

Crises bring out the best in people—and the worst. They also bring out the best people—and the worst. What can one say about ignorant, arrogant, politically active people who say things like, AIDS is God's curse upon homosexuals? I can remember the words of Jesus: Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do, but then I remember Jesus said that moments after he was nailed to the cross.