P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People often confuse "goal" and "purpose." A goal is something tangible; a purpose is a direction. A goal can be achieved; a purpose is fulfilled in each moment. We can set ad achieve many goals; a purpose remains constant for life.”
“People often confuse weak will with modesty, and vanity with dignity.”
“People often create fake, catfish, or anonymous accounts to go online and say harmful things. Sometimes they do this to express their true feelings, but often it's just clickbait to provoke others, gain attention, or chase clout.
They become comfortable behind the screen until they eventually cross legal boundaries. When they're caught by authorities, they start shouting that the government or president is a dictator, claiming their freedom of speech is being violated. They argue that they're being arrested for social media activity while serious crimes go unpunished.
But when you look at their posts, they contain racism, hate speech, incitement to violence, defamation, treasonous remarks, incriminating content, misinformation, cyberbullying, and unethical behavior.
Anonymity does not give you the right to break the law. You're not as hidden as you think. One day, your actions will catch up with you”
“People often criticize my films for being pessimistic; there are certainly many reasons for being pessimistic but I don’t see my films that way. They’re founded in the belief that revolution doesn’t belong on the cinema screen but outside in the world. Never mind if a film ends pessimistically but exposes certain mechanisms clearly enough to show people how they work and the ultimate effect is not pessimistic. My goal is to reveal such mechanisms in a way that makes people realize the necessity of changing their own reality.”
“People often do not value beautiful things around them, and there is no more common thing in the world than human ingratitude.”
Source: Petrichor
“People often expect religious believers to act in especially prosocial ways, which they often do, but religiosity is not always a predictor or moral kindness.”
Source: The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution
“People often expect the other person to respond first in a positive way, instead of taking the initiative to create that possibility. I feel that's wrong; it can act as a barrier that just promotes a feeling of isolation from others. To overcome feelings of isolation and loneliness, your underlying attitude makes a tremendous difference - approaching others with the thought of compassion in your mind is the best way.”
“People often find it easier to refute a fake extreme opponent than a more cautious real one, so they knock down the straw man instead. It is actually worth the trouble to identify the invalid forms of argument, and to learn their names. Not only can you then avoid them yourself; you can also identify them in opponents. If you call your opponent's errors by their Latin names, you can make it look as though he or she is suffering from a rare tropical disease.”
“People often find it surprising that actors find photo shoots difficult, because you're very concerned about what's going on externally in those things when you have to be concerned with what's going on internally as an actor.”
“People often find religion after grave personal suffering or tragedy. It was no different with our ancestors. The few humans who managed to survive this disaster did so by finding unprecedented ways to expand social cooperation.”
Source: Supernatural Selection: How Religion Evolved
“People often forget our emotional contribution to relationships and to marriage and that might be a completely sexist comment but, what I tried not to do [in "Fences"] is, I tried to just put that monologue as part of my stream of consciousness.”
“People often forget that between a dream and the achievement of that dream, there is a journey to travel. Dreams do not just materialize at conception; one has to walk a distance to reach the actualization of that dream.”
Source: DREAMS DON'T DIE, PEOPLE GIVE UP ON THEM
“People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!”
“People often get racism mixed up with bigotry or prejudice. We need to get our terminology straightened out. We obviously have racial problems that need solving. The first step in solving a problem is to identify it. If we keep mis-identifying bigotry and prejudice as racism we'll never make any headway”
“People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!”
“People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible.”
“People often give us a piece of their mind with the intention to take away our peace of mind.”
“People often glorify delayed gratification. While delayed gratification can be a virtue sometimes, we often forget that the most precious asset we have is not money but time. The time that goes by today can never ever return. Much of your life will be directed towards achievement but just remember even an achievement filled life is quite wasted if you can’t spare time to enjoy it and spend time with loved ones while you still can.”
Source: UnLearn: A Practical Guide to Business and Life
“People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“People often hate or feel anger toward someone based on their own selective judgment, which comes from their personal experiences and projections. It usually has nothing to do with the person they are judging, actual behavior, or actions.”
“People often have a romantic ideal of the forest, but if you sit under a tree, every insect within a ten-metre radius will make a beeline for you. It’s not romantic. It is, however, transformative. To feel its pulse, its rhythm, its life. To learn its ways, its regenerative power, its creative prowess.”
Source: Prana
“People often have a romantic ideal of the forest, but if you sit under a tree, every insect within a ten-metre radius will make a beeline for you. It’s not romantic. It is, however, transformative. To feel its pulse, its rhythm, its life. To learn its ways, its regenerative power, its creative prowess. When we look at trees, we think of them as trucks, branches, and leaves. We forget that under the ground there is a vast and complex system of intertwined roots that is as large and fascinating as the system above the soil. It is through this underground system that the trees talk to each other, warn each other of danger, help the sick trees, support the elderly ones, and generally have an elaborate and purposeful way of communicating with the whole ecological community.”
Source: Prana
“People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.”
“People often joke about how they’re unable to make conversation until they’ve had their morning cup of coffee. What if we treated our daily quiet time with the same importance? What if we decided not to speak to anyone until we spend time with our Creator and allow Him to fill us with His Spirit first thing in the morning?”
Source: Coffee Shop Devos: Daily Devotional Pick-Me-Ups for Teen Girls
“People often laugh when I say I am the luckiest person alive. They laugh because I say it with a straight face.”
Source: Mindful Storytelling: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders Who’ve Lost the Narrative Plot
“People often made the mistake of assuming Cassian was the wilder one; the one who couldn't be tamed. But Cassian was all hot temper- temper that could be used to forge and weld. There was an icy rage in Azriel I had never been able to thaw.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“People often make faces, in private, in front of bathroom mirrors, to convince themselves of their own attractiveness. The ‘lively belief that an unseen audience is present,’ Goffman writes, can have a significant effect.”
Source: Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
“People often make very bad mistakes because people often don’t ask very simple crucial questions before their actions!”
“People often miss out on human genius because they're trying to be more perfect than the gods.”
“People often miss things that don't exist--miss things that were but are not anymore.”
Source: The Baker's Daughter: A Novel
“people often mistake cautiousness for cowardice.
and vice versa.”
“People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration.”
“People often need to describe things quickly and so they use a shorthand. The problem is that after they use a label, they begin to think only in terms of the label instead of the totality of the experience a novel provides.”
“People often numb their pain with drugs and alcohol, but they’re not always aware that they’re also numbing their ability to feel pleasure, excitement, and love. Substances don’t selectively dull emotions—they dull them across the board. When you live life fully, you have front-row seats to both pain and pleasure, which honestly sounds a little rough. The key is to take one step back—to not identify with the mind or body—and then experience those emotions while remaining unattached to them. That way, a person can experience life fully without suffering and also gain the clarity of mind to choose wisely. Of course, all that’s easier said than done.”
Source: Through the Darkness: A Story of Love from the Other Side
“People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and miscalculations because they have no awareness whatever of the historical background, the cultural universe, of the foreign societies with which they have to deal.”
“People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years.”
“People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.”
“People often panic when the markets go down and sell off their stocks - but then they aren't in the game when the markets are doing well.”
“People often prefer to deny what is right before their eyes, especially if they can continue to hold on to what is in their hearts.”
Source: The Liar
“People often presume I'm from whatever country they're from. So Americans presume I'm American and the British presume I'm British. And they're surprised to discover I actually am Australian. And actually some Australians are surprised too.”
“People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems. Just focusing on the problems and trying to remedy them can be helpful.”
“People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.”
“People often recommend, "Why do you ask?" as a good conversation stopper. But that really doesn't end the conversation, it just leaves the other person sputtering for a response. I like, "You'll be the first to know.".”
“People often refer to a creative ability as a 'gift', and, of course, it is, in that, if I had sat down and logically tried to work out who I was and what I should do, I would never have come up with the idea of writing. It was already there, gratis, a given - a gift.”
“People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.”
“People often regret their words but rarely their silence”
Source: A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
“People often remain in the dark, not due to lack of light but of failure to open their eyes.”
“People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.”
“People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.”
Source: Secrets and lies: digital security in a networked world
“People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.”