“I just want to work on things that are really hard, and when I'm not working on things that are really hard, I want to hang out with people I like to be with, and that's it.”
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People Quotes — page 696 of 5018
“Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.”
“Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional or pious duty, can often manage to evade a radically involved dialogue with the book they are questioning.”
“That is God's call to us - simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew the kind of life in which the closeness is felt and experienced.”
“[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.”
“Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.”
“I take notes like some people take drugs.”
“I encourage active skepticism - when people are being skeptical because they're trying to identify the best course of action. They're trying to identify the next step for themselves or other people.”
“I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.”
“People feel personally slighted if you don't respond to them in 30 seconds and treat email as instant messenger.”
“Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in”
“You can't fake anything. If you're honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.”
“There's this misconception that the Navy is this cruise ship, and you get to go out and sail around, and every now and then, you have to swab the deck. But, no, it is a very impressive group of young people that live at sea, in this place that's very uncomfortable. They exude a pride that is well-deserved.”
“As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.”
“Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.”
“The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody envies the rich. Me, I love the rich. Somebody has to love them. Sure, a lot o’ rich people are assholes, but believe me, a lot o’ poor people are assholes, too, and an asshole with money can at least pay for his own drinks.”
“Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.”
“You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested.”
“And - of course! - the Non-people. The whole freaking world was full of people who were bound to tell you they weren't qualified to do this or that but they were determined to go ahead and do just that thing anyway.”
“Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.”