Quotes About People

Nem nagyon segítenek az emberek! Azt akarta mondani, hogy az emberek sohasem pontosan olyanok, mint amilyennek elképzeljük Å'ket.

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

The wrong people die, some of them, and the reason is this: life is not fair. Forget all the garbage your parents put out. Remember Morgenstern. You'll be a lot happier.

Butch: What happened to the old bank? It was beautiful. Guard: People kept robbing it. Butch: Small price to pay for beauty.

the lynching, he knew his people felt that he ought to stick with saving souls and stay out of local controversies.

You ever get the feeling the world's filling up with bastards? I do. What I want to know is what happens when all the bastards run out of people to crap on? What happens when all that's left in the world is bastards? . . . The golden rule. Screw unto others before they screw unto you.

conceive that the people of America, in their present temper, or under any circumstances which can speedily happen, will choose, and every second year repeat the choice of, sixty-five or a hundred men who would be disposed to form and pursue a scheme of tyranny or treachery

A people who had so lightly given up their political and cultural and economic freedoms were not, except for a relatively few, going to die or even risk imprisonment to preserve freedom of worship.

Hitler had unleashed a dynamic force of incalculable proportions which had long been pent up in the German people. To what purpose, he had already made clear in the

My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.

There was such noise. It came without remorse. There were always people everywhere. New Crobuzon.

Lenin] wonders pugnaciously, however, whether a people 'influenced by the hopelessness of its situation' could be blamed for 'fling[ing] itself into a struggle that would offer it at least some chance of securing conditions for the further development of civilisation that were somewhat unusual'.

You told all this to the people in the town," he said. "They said they can't do anything because of no proof.

Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect.

If you want to help people understand quickly, define your new concept in terms of something your audience already knows.

Confirmation bias is probably the single biggest problem in business, because even the most sophisticated people get it wrong. People go out and they're collecting the data, and they don't realize they're cooking the books.

action triggers can have a profound power to motivate people to do the things they know they need to do.

How can we make people care about our ideas? We get them to take off their Analytical Hats. We create empathy for specific individuals. We show how our ideas are associated with things that people already care about. We appeal to their self-interest, but we also appeal to their identities—not only to the people they are right now but also to the people they would like to be

the first surprise about change: What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem. And no matter what your role is, you've got some control over the situation.

the core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people, and behavior change happens in highly successful situations mostly by speaking to people's feelings.

For numbers less than 1, you can use a method we call "counting in baskets" to make things start to show up as whole numbers. If you find that .2% of people have a certain trait, use a basket size of at least 500, maybe 1,000, to make them show up as real people. "1 out of 500" or "2 out of 1,000" makes these abstract percentages into real things.

When people try to change things, they're usually tinkering with behaviors that have become automatic, and changing those behaviors requires careful supervision by the Rider. The bigger the change you're suggesting, the more it will sap people's self-control.

making messages "emotional" is to make people care.