- Gold
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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
- Traffic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Net-neutrality proponents howled when Comcast started throttling traffic from BitTorrent, a bandwidth-hogging program people use to swap video files. The Federal Communications Commission sided with the open-Internet folks, ruling that Comcast could not selectively choke off traffic.
- Nov 07, 2020
Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For too long people have backed companies on hope value rather than solid products coming out. Now we are coming out the other side.
- Grounding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went on to write my next book, Working With Emotional Intelligence, I wanted to make a business case that the best performers were those people strong in these skills.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.
- Business People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020