“The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.”
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“People buy personalities as much as merchandise, and it is a question if they are not influenced more by the personalities with which they come in contact than they are by the merchandise.”
“Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.”
“Your reputation is that which people think you are; your character is that which you are.”
“When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.”
“I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill.”
“I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.”
“Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.”
“I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.”
“People are just funny sometimes if you find the right character.”
“It's a big honour to have people be excited about a movie that you make. That's the one thing that you want.”
“I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.”
“A lot of those old ideas are dying with the people who created them, and there's this new generation of filmmaker that's saying, "We're in this together, these are issues that we all deal with, let's just present issues to screen without bias and figure out what the audience has to say about them."”
“I struggle to come up to people and say what I think.”
“Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people. I feel like I'm the luckiest girl on earth, and that's such a lovely feeling.”
“The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.”
“People are experience-rich and theory-poor.”
“If we think about emotion this way - as outside-in, not inside out - it is possible to understand how some people can have an enormous amount of influence over others. Some of us, after all, are very good at expressiing emotions and feelings, which means that we are far more emotionally contagious than the rest of us.”
“Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”
“Muhammad teaches us the knowledge of our own selves, and of our own people. He cleans us up-morally, mentally and spiritually”