Quotes About People

I actually find it's one of the things that lifts me up every day, coming to work and just seeing people always overcoming. That's something that I think a film set does so well all the time.

A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.

If there's no overlap between the interests of the people you sit down with, then the negotiations really can't be driven anywhere.

The Lamb's Club is going to be a luxury bar and grill; we're not doing an overly fancy restaurant. We wanted to make a space that people will come to every day, almost like a very high-end bistro.

To me, leadership is helping people do their best. If you define leadership that way, I don't think it's overrated.

When I came into the game, my influence was so heavy in the States and overseas people was painting murals of me, people tattooing me on them.

I want to travel overseas and help out people all over the world.

Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.

IBM actually followed the recommendations and built a workplace where people can work. (We predict this company will go far.)

Learning is limited by an organization's ability to keep its people.

What seemed to be happening was that the change itself wasn't as important as the act of changing. People were charmed by differentness, they liked the attention, they were intrigued by novelty.

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

I love Italy. For hundreds of years, if not centuries, the people of italy (Italians) have been living here." [Audrey's insight]

So highly did the Roman people prize this ideal of the common good that their name for it – res publica – served as shorthand for their entire system of government.

Geography could not be bucked. Their bogs and trees shrouded in a perpetual drizzle, Germans were the spawn of their environment. The gods, who had considerately endowed Rome with a climate ideally suited to the growth of a mighty city, had doomed the inhabitants of the chilly North to a backwardness that was at once torpid and ferocious, dull and intemperate. Landscape, weather, people: Germany was unredeemably savage.

Of one thing, at any rate, the Roman people could be confident. Mars was not the kind to depilate himself.

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!

I don't think this kind of thing [satire] has an impact on the unconverted, frankly. It's not even preaching to the converted; it's titillating the converted. I think the people who say we need satire often mean, 'We need satire of them, not of us.' I'm fond of quoting Peter Cook, who talked about the satirical Berlin cabarets of the '30s, which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the Second World War.

On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded - that all people are created equal.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.