"You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching and they will learn."
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"To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare."
"Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others."
"Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them."
"Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life."
"there is a tendency in part of Wall Street people to pay excessive attention to the most recent figures and the present financial picture."
"To have people from every continent who are working on philanthropy, on social entrepreneurship, gives me a unique opportunity to engage."
"We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people."
"I felt in a lot of instances I was deliberately being put through stress because when you're a guy who generates money, people have a vested interest in controlling you."
"Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they're socially callous."
"People allow themselves to get distracted; I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what they ought to be doing at any point in time is distraction."
"What you'll tend to avoid doing is probably the most important thing you need to do because it'll probably be the most daunting and the most potentially successful thing you could be doing and that's usually out of people's comfort zone."
"Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence."
"The younger people get into the lyrics in a different way; there's much more of a tactile understanding, which is the way I prefer it."
"The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense."
"Music videos are like girlfriends. I'm constantly amazed on what other people doing"
"One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage."
"I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want."
"If only loud people were even half as interesting as they think they are."
"I like people, for a little while."