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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 Aug 01, 2026
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people are depending on us, we end up finding strength we didn't know we had.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teams need the opportunity to learn about each other's capabilities and develop productive routines. So once we get the right people on the bus, let's make sure they spend some time driving together.
- Nov 07, 2020
Being a giver is not about saying yes to all of the people all of the time to all of the requests.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.
- Causing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry - people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
To grow, people need to be challenged.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.
- Selfish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.
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- Nov 07, 2020