Quotes About People

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get alnog with people.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

I did not then believe, and I do not now believe, that any man should ever attempt to make politics his only career. It is a dreadful misfortune for a man to grow to feel that his whole livelihood and whole happiness depend upon his staying in office. Such a feeling prevents him from being of real service to the people while in office, and always puts him under the heaviest strain of pressure to barter his convictions for the sake of holding office.

To play the demagogue for purposes of self-interest is a cardinal sin against the people in a democracy, exactly as to play the courtier for such purposes is a cardinal sin against the people under other forms of government.

We Progressives believe that the people have the right and the duty to protect themselves and their own welfare; that human rights are supreme over all other rights; that wealth should be the servant, not the master, of the people. We believe that if representative government does not absolutely represent the people it is not representative government at all.

To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly -- and so deciding to computerize the problem.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

Let me tell you something: you can not write good fiction about ideas. You can only write good fiction about people.

which means "other side," the other part of the city. The view from there wasn't as good as from the fort, but curious people were there, too, just looking. Strangely

literature must always be about gloom of one sort or another, on the principal that there is nothing interesting to be said about happy people.

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

the hot sickness causing him to see people

Many of our churches have become cluttered. So cluttered that people have a difficult time encountering the simple and powerful message of Christ. So cluttered that many people are busy doing church instead of being the church.

Clarity is the ability of the process to be communicated and understood by the people.

Why would we attempt to build spiritual lives without a clear ministry blueprint? To build the lives of people effectively, you need a clear ministry process.

Leading a church would be a lot easier if we didn't have to deal with people.

Church burnout will not take place if we are seeking to please God in our service rather than to please people.

Lo mismo sucede en una iglesia. Las personas en la iglesia deben conocer el proceso porque son parte integral de su cumplimiento.

La frase: personas necesitan que se les recuerde mas que se las instruya» es bien cierta. La gente tiende a olvidarse cual es la direccion de la iglesia. Es necesario recordarles a las personas sobre el proceso que Dios dio y que la iglesia adopto.

Do not enter into change leadership lightly. Do not begin the process without concerted prayer. And realize that change is all about people. If you don't deal with people issues in leading change, you will fail. It's just that simple.

If you love change more than you love people, you have already failed as a leader.

If we want any hope of reversing troubling church trends, especially among young people, we must focus not on tribal heritage, denominational branding, theological hair-splitting, or pharisaical purity. We must focus on Jesus—and his sacrificial love for us and all people.

This is the essence of all games. Games are a way of using time for people who cannot bear the stroking starvation of withdrawal and yet whose NOT OK position makes the ultimate form of relatedness, intimacy, impossible.

Forasmuch as our Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ, in order to "save His people from their sins" (Matt. 1:21), as the angel announced, showed unto us in His own Person the way of truth,