P Quotes
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“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
“People do not choose a career; the career envelopes them.”
“People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring the people within its control.”
“People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future.”
“People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.”
“People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control.”
Source: The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future
“People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests.”
Source: Human Action
“People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict.”
Source: Human Action
“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.”
“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.”
“People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.”
“People do not die - they kill themselves.”
“People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.”
Source: Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained
“People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.”
“people do not emphasize with victims and give them limitless sympathy, but can very quickly switch to aggression and rejection”
Source: 3,096 Days
“People do not enter into an argument intentionally; they get dragged. However, smart ones know how to bypass the argument trap.”
Source: Quantraz
“People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?”
“People do not follow uncommitted leaders. Commitment can be displayed in a full range of matters to include the work hours you choose to maintain, how you work to improve your abilities, or what you do for your fellow workers at personal sacrifice.”
“People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.”
Source: Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married
“People do not get tired out from working where work is intelligently handled. Work, if it is interesting, is a stimulant. It's worry and a lack of interest in what one does that tire and discourage. Every one of us should have our pet interests-as many as we can handle efficiently and happily. Our interests should never be allowed to lag or get cold so that all enthusiasm is spent. Each day can be one of triumph if you keep up to your interests-feeding them as they feed you!”
“People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.”
“People do not give from the top of their purses but from the bottom of their hearts. If you desire to become a more generous person do not change your income. Change your heart.”
“People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day. I was just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name Tom Chaney shot my father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robbed him of his life and his horse and $150 in cash money plus two California gold pieces that he carried in his trouser band.”
“People do not have a constitutional right to be married any more than we could say that someone has a constitutional right to a driver's license. You either meet the requirements or you don't. In the case of marriage, homosexuals do not meet the requirements of marriage.”
“People do not have to be dreary to be good.”
“People do not hear our pain when they believe they are at fault.”
“People do not just buy products. They buy better versions of themselves. And the packages in which they want the products to be delivered must come from humble and approachable brands. People have no patience for fluff.”
Source: The Little Big eBook on Social Media Audiences: Build Yours, Keep It, and Win
“People do not just start saying ‘Gucci.”
Source: 21st Century Intolerant: A collection of short stories about the struggles of modern life, from the trivial to the terrifying.
“People do not just use information that is easy to find; they even use information that they know to be of poor quality and less reliable, so long as it requires little effort to find, rather than using information they know to be of high quality and reliable, though harder to find.”
“People do not know how what is at variance agrees with itself. It is an attunement of opposite tensions, like that of the bow and the lyre.”
“People do not know what good deeds are. It is udaya karma,unfolding effects of past karma; that makes them do the deeds. The prakruti, the relative self, forces them to do them. What is your own thing [effort] in that? Doing good deeds; that too is mandatory (farajiyat)!”
“People do not know what Truth is and what false is. Truth knows both Truth and falseness. However, the false know neither the false nor Truth. People do not know what Truth is, nor do they know what they are being deceived by. When they have a bigger mind and become Truth, they will know the wisdom of the world and will live without death.”
Source: The Way To Become A Person In Heaven While Living
“People do not lack strength; they lack will.”
“People do not like being lied to, and they do not like having their rights violated. So as soon as [officials] stop making arguments, you see support for me starts to rise.”
“People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does not like bad news.”
“People do not look at the music business as an entrepreneur business at all times, but everything in this business is entrepreneurship. It's one thing to have the money and not have the knowledge. A lot of times people have great ideas, but don't have a plan. The whole thing about being an entrepreneur is you have to have a plan.”
“People do not lose the love of God, they only lose sight of it.”
“People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else”
Source: Collected Stories
“People do not make wars; governments do.”
“People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is.”
Source: Explorations in marital and family therapy: selected papers of James L. Framo
“People do not meet by chance––they navigate their lives to certain people for certain reasons.”
Source: I Hate to Say Goodbye
“People do not mind people who try things and fail. If you're a good entrepreneur, you're not going to succeed in every single thing you try. You've got to try to succeed at more things than fail.”
“People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.”
“People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.”
“People do not necessarily know what they are doing, because our ability to comprehend even matters that concern us directly is limited – or, in the jargon, we have ‘bounded rationality’. The world is very complex and our ability to deal with it is severely limited. Therefore, we need to, and usually do, deliberately restrict our freedom of choice in order to reduce the complexity of problems we have to face. Often, government regulation works, especially in complex areas like the modern financial market, not because the government has superior knowledge but because it restricts choices and thus the complexity of the problems at hand, thereby reducing the possibility that things may go wrong.”
“People do not need more information. They need a reason to care.”
Source: Wisdom by AI: The Leader's Compass
“People do not need more sex, but they need pleasure that carries sexual energy, and a sensual lifestyle is a powerful way to deliver it.”
“People do not often stop to dwell on the reality that the most difficult daily challenges we face are a result of dealing with human energies. That vibe they sent you, that vibration you picked up... that's just as real as the chair you are sitting on. Our souls are struggling, playing, fighting, winning, losing... all on the playing fields and the battle grounds of human energy.”
“People do not only live on interests; they also live on beliefs, especially in very ideological areas. Unless you understand the ideological aspect of the region, you cannot understand what is happening.”
“People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt