Quotes About People

He wished to please everybody, Franklin later said of Keith, and having little to give, he gave expectations.

One purpose of these notebooks was to record interesting scenes, especially those involving people and emotions. "As you go about town," he wrote in one of them, "constantly observe, note, and consider the circumstances and behavior of men as they talk and quarrel, or laugh, or come to blows."1 For that purpose, he kept a small notebook hanging from his belt.

He has a second-rate mind but a first-rate intuition about people," Kissinger once said of Rockefeller. "I have a first-rate mind but a third-rate intuition about people.

The attitude we adopt toward the Arab minority will provide the real test of our moral standards as a people

Take a note of them with slight strokes in a little book which you should always carry with you," he wrote. "The positions of the people are so infinite that the memory is incapable of retaining them, which is why you should keep these sketches as your guides." 22

Innovation is driven by people who have both good theories and the opportunity to be part of a group that can implement them. The

Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: Tell the history of our time through the people who make it.

One purpose of these notebooks was to record interesting scenes, especially those involving people and emotions. "As you go about town," he wrote in one of them, "constantly observe, note, and consider the circumstances and behavior of men as they talk and quarrel, or laugh, or come to blows."1 For that purpose, he kept a small notebook hanging from his belt. According to the poet Giovanni Battista Giraldi, whose father knew Leonardo:

Back then, people weren't comfortable with technology. If you're scared of something, then you won't touch it. I could see my mum being scared to touch it. So I thought, if there's this handle on it, it makes a relationship possible. It's approachable.

Power to the people was a romantic lie," he later said. "Computers did more than politics did to change society.

Una de sus máximas clave relativas a la inversión era apostar por la gente más que por la idea.

Jobs could be charming to people he hated just as easily as he could be insulting to people he liked.

He also speculated, correctly, that summer breezes do not by themselves cool people; instead, the cooling effect comes from the increased evaporation of human perspiration caused by the breeze.

When one has so many different people with different opinions to deal with in a new affair," he explained to his friend Cadwallader Colden, "one is obliged sometimes to give up some smaller points in order to obtain greater.

Build something of value and deliver a service compelling enough that people would just use it.

Franklin would find himself more attracted to people who were practical and reliable rather than dreamy and romantic.

When one has so many different people with different opinions to deal with in a new affair

Being "disputatious," he concluded, was "a very bad habit" because contradicting people produced "disgusts and perhaps enmities.

Money ain't the root of all evil," Coydog had told the boy Li'l Pea, "but it get a hold on some people like vines on a tree or the smell'a fungus on damp sheets. They's some people need money before love or laughter. All you can do is feel sorry for someone like that.

The only leaders they should evah have is parents, teachers, and generals during time of war. Other than that we all just people come from our mothers and headed for the grave.

But all that a king can give to a people is a smile, such as the sun bestows on the snowy peaks of the Grampian mountains, as distant and as ineffectual. Alas

If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.

Having firstrate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom

I have met people who insist that humans taste like veal. And one woman from Canada who will swear up and down that people, like most other things, taste a bit like chicken. But she was crazy. And also Canadian.