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"Don't expect people to abide by your rules if you don't clearly communicate what they are. And don't expect them to live by your rules if you're not willing to compromise and live by at least some of theirs."
"People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct."
"Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much."
"Many people find it easy to imagine unseen webs of malevolent conspiracy in the world, and they are not always wrong. But there is also an innocence that conspires to hold humanity together, and it is made of people who can never fully know the good that they have done."
"People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are."
"I don't care about going down in history as a great bull rider or bronc rider. I hope people will remember me as a great cowboy."
"The ministry of mercy, then, is the best advertising a church can have. It convinces a community that this church provides people with actions for their problems, not only talk. It shows the community that this church is compassionate."
"Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study."
"The people that hunt are the guys that really vehemently protect the environment. You find that people that live on ranches tend to want to keep it that way, and I've always loved that about the hunters that I've known. They eat what they kill, and they carry it out. They don't shoot for sport."
"When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make the computer do anything they can imagine."
"The result is a twitching convulsion of vicious drivel passing itself off as a movie, which can be best appreciated by the kind of people who dig Showgirls, the Saw franchise and Spike Jonze-Charlie Kaufman flicks."
"There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy."
"People see me on the court only as a superhero, grunting and winning. They think you're a robot, and I'm not."
"Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither."
"I wouldn't mind people saying, "You can't do this because this isn't enough.""
"art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden."
"We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it."
"Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process did not take place it would put them in self-danger of coming to mental harm, being unable to cope with the idea of a godless, purposeless life."
"The job of a good ally is not to save anybody but rather to help create the conditions under which people can assert and grow their own power."
"If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for"
