P Quotes
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“People’s problems are like onions—they come in layers. Only after the outside layers are peeled off do they get down to the core problem. Sometimes people know what the real problem is but are afraid to start there; more often they are not even aware of what is underneath. When a person starts out talking to you about some bothersome problem, you generally hear only the ‘presenting problem.’ Active Listening effectively facilitates the helpee to move through the presenting problem and finally get down to the core problem.”
“People's problems are seeds to the mind of an entrepreneur, sown in the fields of possibilities and reaped in determination and consistent of smart work.”
“People's problems is with "What to do" not "How to do". You can't use the word "How" without "What".”
“People's sense of self worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they've caused. The more solid one's sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.”
“People’s tendency to believe that people on their side are motivated by love, and people on the other side are motivated by hate appears to be at the root of some of the world’s most intractable conflicts.”
Source: Beyond Your Bubble: How to Connect Across the Political Divide, Skills and Strategies for Conversations That Work
“People's thoughts are as thin and fragile as lace, and they themselves as pitiable as lace-making girls”
Source: The Essential Kierkegaard
“People's wishes for their own lives tend to outweigh others' ideas about how they should behave.
[Mrs. Fahey]”
“People's words are like a cliff if you put under your feet you will rise up، and if you listen to them you will be fallen.”
“People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.”
“People said he should smile more. He generally avoided those people.”
Source: How to Be a Normal Person
“People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.”
“People said I'd never make 35, then I'd never make 40, 45; now I'm almost 50, so Im beginning to think maybe they might be wrong.”
“People said if [I] was at a party, it gave it prestige. I would let people know I'd arrived by letting off my flash... You could feel the temperature rise right away.”
Source: Malick Sidibé
“People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. They did not give or ask for reasons. 'Reason,' Dr. Pritchett had told them, 'is the most naive of all superstitions.'
'The source of public opinion?' said Claude Slagenhop in a public radio speech. 'There is no source of public opinion. It is spontaneously general. It is a reflex of the collective instinct of the collective mind.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“People said it because other people said it. They did not know why it was being said and heard everywhere. they did not give or ask for reasons.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“People said making clothes inside out was not proper. I disagreed because clothes that are inside out are as beautiful as a cathedral.”
“People, said Sybille, were not meant to be alone. Men and women, women and women, men and men, all should find each other. Solitude was for those broken beyond repair.”
Source: Sourdough and Other Stories
“People said that dogs tended to resemble their owners, and considering that my little wiener dog was a super cute brown girl with stubby legs, great fashion sense, and a tendency toward plumpness, I had to agree.”
Source: Homicide and Halo-Halo
“People said that he was very nice, but I confess that his utter grotesqueness made me uneasy; perhaps in the same way that the sight of monkeys eating their own excrement turns some people’s stomachs. They might not mind so much if monkeys did not- so grotesquely- resemble human beings.”
“People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, Val thought that the real problem with games was that the player was suppossed to try everything. If there was a cave, you went in it. If there was a mysterious stranger, you talked to him. If there was a map, you followed it. But in games, you had a hundred million billion lives and Val only had this one.”
“People said that way back in the early days I was probably one of the first rappers; the reason is that I couldn't sing, so I had to talk! Lou Reed was probably the one who started it all.”
“People said there had to be a Supreme Being because otherwise how could the universe exist, eh?
And of course there clearly had to be, said Koomi, a Supreme Being. But since the universe was a bit of a mess, it was obvious that the Supreme Being hadn't in fact made it. If he had made it he would, being Supreme, have made a better job of it, with far better thought given, taking an example at random, to things like the design of the common nostril. Or, to put it another way, the existence of a badly put-together watch proved the existence of a blind watchmaker. You only had to look around to see that there was room for improvement practically everywhere. This suggested that the Universe had probably been put together in a bit of a rush by an underling while the Supreme Being wasn't looking, in the same way that Boy Scouts' Association minutes are done on office photocopiers all over the country.
So, reasoned Koomi, it was not a good idea to address any prayers to a Supreme Being. It would only attract his attention and might cause trouble.”
Source: Small Gods
“People said things they didn't mean all the time. Everybody else in the world seemed able to factor it in. But not Lena. Why did she believe the things people said? Why did she cling to them so literally? Why did she think she knew people when she clearly didn't? Why did she imagine that the world didn't change, when it did? Maybe she didn't change. She believed what people said and she stayed the same." (Lena, 211)”
“People said things to me like "They're just animals. They're here for our use." I had a visceral reaction to that phrase, maybe because I was told countless times during my growing-up years that I was "just like an animal." I had suffered much of my life because I was considered less than human. Animals were suffering because they were less than human. And it seemed to me that human didn't have much to be proud of, if they treated other living things with such blind cruelty.”
Source: Ten Thousand Sorrows : The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan
“People said time healed anything. Maybe those people had never loved anyone.”
Source: The Tea Rose
“People said to me, "You know, when you record a special, you're going to regret it. The one thing you'll regret because you're a comic is you'll think of better tags."”
“People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could.”
“People said, ‘You must be mad, or on drugs,’ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you’re on drugs or mad, rather than free.”
“People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It's just that people haven't known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer.”
“People saw me as just a singer - yeah, a pretty face who could sing - and not more than that.”
“People say "God will find a way." God can't find a way if you're in the way.”
“People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.”
“People say "the Americans" or "the United States," as if it was a kind of bloc. It's not. There's a lot of people thinking differently from other people in the U.S. This is very interesting to me and very important.”
“People say 'Bill, are you an optimist?' And I say, 'I hope so.'”
“People say 'follow in the footsteps' but I always find that a strange expression because what you want to do is forge your own path, so to speak.”
“People say 'go with the flow' but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish.”
“People say 'I don't want to die alone!' But you know what, honestly? I don't want to die with a bunch of people looking at me.”
“People say 'I love Artists', but what they really know about Artists? They've ever thought about sharing the real madness with us? I believe those extreme passions/emotions in me separated from the real world is the sauce to pull out the inspirations out of me that touch the core of people's hearts, which is usually wandering about deep inside of you unconsciously covered with the social taboo called 'common sense'.”
“People say 'nerd' condescendingly, but when you're older you start to realize that it's the nerds who grow up to be the cool ones.”
“People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.”
“People say 'Scott's [Derrickson] movies are kind of scary, is this a horror movie?' Of course, [Doctor Strange] it's not a horror movie. But what Scott has done so well in the best of his films is have one foot completely in the real world and one foot in this whatever supernatural sub-genre he was playing with.”
“People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't spending time with teenagers.”
“People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.”
“People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language.”
“People say a lot of things, like "You can't teach personality" or "You can't teach charisma," and I find that it's not true.”
“People say a mother is only as happy as her least happy child. But what if the state of that child's happiness has become a mystery? What if that child is no longer a child but a young man who has removed himself to a great distance and encased himself in silence?”
Source: A Small Indiscretion
“People say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I think they're wrong. Proximity makes the heart grow fonder.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“People say after a fire it's water damage that's the worst. We're still drying out Windsor Castle.”
“People say all lives matter. And that's true, but it's just black people that are getting shot in the back running or choked to death for having cigarettes or playing their music too loud.”
“People say all the time 'I don't have a good testimony' because they think their story has to involve some dramatic story of change from 'bad' to 'good'. But Jesus didn't come to save people this way. Sin doesn't make us bad it makes us dead. Jesus came to save by bringing the dead to life. And that's an amazing testimony.”