P Quotes
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“People act as though the hybrid could solve all of our problems - which is certainly not the case.”
“People act differently when they're in love with different people. We tend to match our expressed interests and preferences to those of a desired individual.”
Source: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
“People act differently, when they see a camera or when they know they are being filmed. People can really act, when they want to get their message across to whomever is watching.”
“People act in ways to maximize their self-interest within a company, so create incentives that align employee's objectives with the organization's mission statement. Reward compliance with core values as much as profitability, especially in the face of competitive pressures.”
Source: UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
“People act like Black girls are born with a little tube of relaxer & a note that says, ‘My bad.’- God.”
“People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.”
“People act on the outside the way they feel on the inside.”
“People acted how they looked like. The reactions of the world to one’s appearance were an invisible estimation of one’s perception of themselves. The beautiful and the hideous each got treated a certain way—experiencing wildly different kinds of years. The beautiful were told phrases the hideous never heard. The beautiful struggled more with envy, while the hideous spent more time practicing courage, for things never easily bent their way. Every person accepted how they were treated and sank into that role. It showed in the way they sat. How their heads turn. When they spoke. If they spoke. Mannerisms were then not a matter of individual personality, but collective decree. Andrei would notice in a stranger all the things their body did, memorize them, and project them imaginarily on a different person. The imagined transference would never work! It seemed odd, like a miscalculation, to visualize a gorgeous Adonis walk with his head down and fidgety fingers the way a shy man did. There was undeniably a pattern of traits between strangers, courtesy of the strangers they meet.”
Source: A Happy Ghost
“People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.”
“People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.”
“People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to the fashionable genius role. I really enjoy when a project gets down to the wire, and through sheer force of will and faith in our process, we cross the goal line, when most people thought it impossible.”
“People actually live with their id exposed. They're not good at concealing what's going on inside.”
“People actually occupy around 3 per cent of the earth's land surface. If 1,200 square feet was given to every person in the world, they would still all fit into an area the size of Texas - whether the Texans would object is an altogether different issue!”
“People actually say Miley mostly because they see Miley mostly on the show. When I have the wig on, they'll say Hannah, but when I don't, they'll say Miley.”
“People actually were worried that I was going to get stereotyped as a monster after Freddy, but my God, I got stereotyped as white trash for years, the best friend for years, the redneck for years, the nerd for years and let me tell you...it's better to be a monster than to be a nerd.”
“People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.”
Source: The Peach Keeper: A Novel
“People add color to their story because they think it happened in black and white.”
“People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.”
“People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.”
Source: Tough Customer: A Novel
“People admire inner bonfires that burn so bright, and out of ignorance to these things, they gather around and think that the bonfire is some kind of blessing on their behalf, is some kind of untouched thing that knows only the purity of everything. It's all ignorance. The larger the bonfire, and the brighter it burns, the more evident the fact that it has consumed more wood and more air than the smaller ones. You burn because you have to burn. And you're not burning for others, you're not burning to be a blessing; you burn because you have to burn.”
“People admire my confidence, but they never see me when I'm alone. That's when I'm the most raw because I'm not trying to sell myself to anybody.”
Source: Teenage Idol
“People admired her poetry, but she knew there were plenty of readers who questioned it. How could she write brokenhearted verse if she never loved? Why did she compose so much about death if she knew little of life?”
Source: The Dante Chamber
“People adopt ideas when social, personal and financial trends intersect-a confluence that may seem random but usually happens 'by design.”
“People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones.”
“People afraid of criticism but I always put myself in a sacrificial position,they been know I ain't just rappin for fame”
“People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.”
“People age even when you're not looking.”
“People agree to say that it is rationality and science which have eliminated what is called magic and religion. But ultimately, the ironic outcome of this techno-scientific development is a renewed need for the idea of God.”
“People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.”
Source: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“People align with movements they can believe in, and it is the human, intellectual, and financial investment in genuine content that defines experiences.”
“People alive are better than people not alive.”
“People all around the world look different, they wear different kinds of clothes, prepare their food differently, and speak different languages, but their hearts beat for the same emotions -- this is the one and only universal human connection.”
“People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.”
“People all over the United States are ready to try to take off the unwanted weight they gained. They’re ready to start walking, jogging, riding bikes, taking exercise classes, walking the malls, or just moving more outside. They’re hoping to lose the weight they have gained. But they’ll fail, mostly.”
Source: Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer
“People all over the world feed upon U.S. cinema and don't know about their own.”
“People all over the world meditate in many ways, following a wide variety of recommendations.”
Source: Practical Meditation for Beginners: 10 Days to a Happier, Calmer You
“People all over the world now are following our election. And according to a new international poll that just came out, I think this came out a few hours ago, this is true, people in Canada want Barack Obama to be the next U.S. president. That's what they're saying. In Canada, yeah. That makes sense, because Obama has the support of Canada's anti-war voters, as well as Canada's black guy. He is very excited.”
“People all over the world recognize me as a spiritual leader.”
“People all over this country are shouting at each other. And what we need to do is bring people together to work on the agreement where there is broad consensus and that's what I intend to do.”
“People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.”
“People all the time say, oh, if you only knew Hillary Clinton the way I know Hillary Clinton.”
“People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish to be free they can.”
“People allow themselves to get distracted; I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what they ought to be doing at any point in time is distraction.”
“People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.”
“People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.”
“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
“People alone of all the resources can grow and develop.”
“People already love to play casual games. But when you take a casual game and stick it inside a social network, it becomes way more exciting.”
“People already think the court is there to become the final word on controversial political questions. So everybody looks to the Supreme Court as the final word on abortion or immigration or what have you. It's not what it's for. It's never intended to be such. It's just another institution that has been corrupted and it's facing total corruption depending on the outcome of this election.”
“People already think the entire system is rigged against Donald Trump, and they're right, meaning, the corrupt, rigged system. The elections every four years are just part of that to them. They feel like they can't get a fair shake. It is the essence of the Donald Trump candidacy.”