- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Genuine
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most influential people strive for genuine buy-in and commitment - they don't rely on compliance techniques that only secure short-term persuasion.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Show people a positive path that enables them to make progress on their own terms. Give them options and alternatives that empower them.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do people who consider themselves good communicators often fail to actually hear each other? Often it's due to a mismatch of styles: To someone who prefers to vent, someone who prefers to explain seems patronizing; explainers experience venters as volatile.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know CEOs, and they get sick when they have to lay people off, especially around Christmas.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am blessed to count among my friends and colleagues people who are very thoughtful and who deeply care about our country.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are continuing to be in debt or are going deeper into it, every time a creditor calls, it rubs your face not only in how vulnerable you are, but that people are out to get something from you that you don't have to give.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something I had learned from 30 years as a psychotherapist turned Fortune 500 executive coach when helping people to calm down is that it is much less important what you tell others than what you enable them to tell you and, in the process, tell themselves that results in them calming themselves down.
- Hesitant
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't create more jobs for an economy where the vast majority of people are hesitant and even afraid to spend and buy.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.
- Coaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
- Distasteful
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- Nov 07, 2020
In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's 'supposed' to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.
- Trying
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020