“I admire people who do things that are interesting to them, who don't have a strategy or a master plan or have a brand - I don't care about any of those things.”
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People Quotes — page 621 of 5018
“I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.”
“The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don't understand that, and I think it's rude. You're at Grandma's house, you eat what Grandma serves you.”
“The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men.”
“What a delight it is to respect people!”
“Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.”
“If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.”
“Man is, above all, he who creates.”
“...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso”
“I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard any geniuses.”
“But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?”
“... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves.”
“People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.”
“There are people all over the world who are willing to exploit others. You can't just point the finger at America”
“I make my protein drink with whiskey. People think I'm crazy, but that's the way I am. I get stoned, I do my own thing.”
“I don't mind looking foolish but it's just that I'm so bad at singing. The only time people ask me to sing is if they want the party to stop. If they want everyone to go home. Immediately.”
“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?”
“What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.”
“Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.”
“Talent is able to achieve what is beyond other people's capacity to achieve, yet not what is beyond their capacity of apprehension; therefore it at once finds its appreciators. The achievement of genius, on the other hand, transcends not only others' capacity of achievement, but also their capacity of apprehension; therefore they do not become immediately aware of it. Talent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.”