“I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.”
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People Quotes — page 932 of 5018
“compromise is the work of mature people.”
“In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.”
“I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.”
“The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.”
“No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.”
“There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.”
“Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.”
“Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.”
“There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.”
“I've played so many moms, best friends, sisters and understanding people.”
“We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world”
“Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.”
“I'm no respecter of tradition and I have no time for the Manchester Uniteds and Arsenals of this world. There's nothing to admire in these clubs. They're just bullshit worlds full of bullshit people.”
“If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection. The problem is, for many of the overpaid leaders, we know that they took the money and perks and didn’t offer protection to their people. In some cases, they even sacrificed their people to protect or boost their own interests. This is what so viscerally offends us. We only accuse them of greed and excess when we feel they have violated the very definition of what it means to be a leader.”
“When we are in groups, when we are surrounded by people who believe what we believe, trust emerges and our very survival and progress goes up.”
“Leadership is a choice. It's not a rank, it's a choice. I know many people who are at the top of their organization who have authority. We have to do what they say because they have authority over us. But they're not leaders. We wouldn't follow them. They may be at the top of the company but they're not leaders.”
“Leaders, whatever the size of their organizations, are those willing to put the interests of other people before their own.”
“The leader's job is to lead and protect. Not have all the answers, not know everything to do, not to micromanage and tell people what to do or how to do it. A leader's job is to lead and protect. That's their job, and it's the people within the organization - their job is to get the work done.”
“Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.”