Quotes About People

wasn't as important as the act of changing. People were charmed by differentness, they liked the attention, they were intrigued by novelty. This has come to be called the Hawthorne Effect.

As long as people tend to define themselves at least partially in terms of the work they do, any change to that work, its procedures and modes, is likely to have self-definitional importance to them. This can lead to surprising amounts of change resistance.

I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interpreting the information.

There have been a few occurrences where people in restaurants have sent me a rasher of bacon, which I am not going to turn my nose up at. I never let them down.

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.

There's this common sense idea that in order to appeal to the biggest number of people, you have to write something very general, but my experience is the more specific you make something, the more people respond to it, in a very odd way.

I think people do like extremes in cinema. There are very few films told about everyday middle-class couples, which is odd to me, as there are a lot of everyday middle-class couples.

The pressure of TV can force people to do odd things.

Oddly I've been DJ-ing for many years, actually, but not many people know about it because if you go and DJ in a club and you've got 2000 people in there, then obviously about 2000 people know that you're a DJ.

Some people were offended by a show about cougars.

If you're not offending one group of people, you're not entertaining the other.

I don't worry about offending people - I think most people are a lot more robust than some other people give them credit for.

When people saw that the film was called 'White People,' many got very defensive. I've been getting some very interesting emails - and I'm used to hate mail, believe me. I think this idea that we grouped white people together is offensive to people.

I don't tend to offer up a critique unless I have a clearly formulated alternative, because there's nothing worse than people on a set or any kind of artistic life who critique something but who don't have anything to offer.

There are sacrifices you have to make. I don't have a lot to offer one person. I have a lot to offer to a lot of people.

The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.

Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.

There's a love that I want to continue to offer people. And, I hope I can offer people that love through the art.

Bellator offered me a job. UFC never offered me an opportunity to fight. There's no question that UFC is the top. It's a machine. A lot of people, including myself, have helped build the UFC to where it is today.

I think people need to understand the amount of emotions I can pull off. I want films I'm offered to have these dimensions.

There's a lot of opportunity for game developers to show value to people, things they want to spend money on. I think offers are just another kind of ads.

The right people don't care about a corner office - they care about the culture, if you're mission-driven, what you're going to do to make the world a better place.

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

Many Americans do not understand that the officers of the government are simply the servants of the people.