Quotes About People

I am particularly looking forward to meeting ordinary American people and hearing about their extraordinary lives.

Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Most activism is brought about by us ordinary people.

Ordinary people want good government.

Ordinary people can be very articulate and very eloquent.

The Constitution was made for ordinary people.

One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.

We've had enough of the generals and movie stars. We want to hear about the ordinary people.

I want to keep telling stories of ordinary people.

Even very ordinary people, upon closer examination, can often look extraordinary.

I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition.

I think you find amongst ordinary people there are a lot of people that are really talented.

I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.

I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really.

Part of how you grapple with intense opposition is by creating real, organic momentum: by actually doing something for people, and then they rightfully buy into it.

Every failing organisation has the same stories, people find it very hard to learn from the most successful organisations and people.

You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too.

I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best.

Organizations can get in the way of innovation, because if people are all bound up, and if they don't know if they get to make the decision or somebody else, and if they do, what happens to them, and so on and so forth.

Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.