Quotes About People

What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

A good change leader never thinks, "Why are these people acting so badly? They must be bad people." A change leader thinks, "How can I set up a situation that brings out the good in these people?

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

I have been overwhelmed by gifts and good wishes all week. So many from people who I thought did not care, so many from people whose love I had done little to deserve. But then, love is never about deserving, is it? Nor is hate.

Sometimes I dreamed that I was walking the wilderness with its swaying grasses, its leaping, golden beasts, the earth-mother the way she'd been before people bent her to their desires.

Sometimes, we are compelled by circumstances to interact with people who are unwholesome. Some of these people are extremely pessimistic or depressive. Although they may not be particularly negative towards you, the constant emission of pessimistic or depressive energy from them can contaminate you.

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.

One phone call: I realized it was as simple as that. People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.

That is the nature of this madness. It fills the sky with barrage balloons and people's eyes with hate.

He goes for people's open wounds, then brings God in with air support. You have to agree, there's a certain cowardice to that approach.

People joked that Zanna had only come to Scrubbley because she'd missed the train to Hogwarts. What

There's not more power in a lot of people praying because the power comes from God and not the people. But what happens when many pray for the same thing is an opportunity for God's glory. Everything comes back to the glory of God. Everything in history, the purpose of our lives, is the glory of God. Every breath we take.

But when people age, they're not looking for a cure as much as they are for encouragement to continue. Our work here is not about curing. It's about the dignity of each person wheeled from breakfast back to their room.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

I turn to people for joy and its uniquely human antecedents, like inspiration and desire. I will never tire of hearing talented makers talking about their work. It's like a medicine that might be prescribed to you when you're feeling hopeless.

She added that despite all the advances in neuroscience, psychology wasn't going anywhere either. I nodded. It would be around for as long as there are people who wanted to babble about their problems. So, forever.

Fooling the world, Brum would say, has always been possible, because people think they're smarter than they really are. A confidence that, ironically, stems from their fear of seeming stupid.

You don't trust people because they're a sure bet or even a good risk. You trust them because the risk that you'll lose them is worse than the risk that they'll hurt you.

Our ruling class have never been up for re-election before, but I hereby serve notice on behalf of the people of Great Britain that their time has come." Such language had never been heard from a British Prime Minister before. Although received with rapture in Sheffield town hall, Harry Perkins' words burst upon the Athenaeum as though the end of the world was at hand. Which, in a manner of speaking, it was. "South of France for me, old boy," said Furnival.

There is no such thing as a powerful prayer; we only have powerful people praying to a powerful God.

Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.

Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do.

The theory is that the people who do the work are the highest authorities on how best to do it.