P Quotes
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“People tend to see what they want when they see video footage and it is not always the whole truth.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“People tend to set themselves up in patterns; something happens, it hurts them, then something similar happens, and - it's happened again! It seems much bigger then, and they get worried and go through life looking for that thing, and because they're so concerned and looking for it, when anything that happens resembles that thing, they're sure it's happening again. So sometimes people think things are repeating even when they're not.”
“People tend to shrink with age, especially after age 50 or so. It has to do with spaces between the joints amount of cartilage and posture. Bone length does not change.”
“People tend to sit where there are places to sit”
“People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they've done and climb out of it again.”
“People tend to spend so much time focusing on what they feel they can't do, rather examining the true potential of what they can.”
Source: Human Resources for the Heart
“People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.”
“People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size difference is sexy. It means: I am willing to go the distance for you.”
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories
“People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there's a problem and it's of modest dimensions.”
“People tend to take stories literally these days.”
“People tend to think about God more when the clock starts to wind down.”
“People tend to think astronauts have the courage of a superhero - or maybe the emotional range of a robot. But in order to stay calm in a high-stress, high-stakes situation, all you really need is knowledge. Sure, you might still feel a little nervous or stressed or hyper-alert. But what you won't feel is terrified.”
Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
“People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.”
“People tend to think of breakthroughs in medicine as a new drug, a laser, or a high-tech surgical procedure. They often have a hard time believing that the simple choices that we make in our lifestyle. What we eat, how we respond to stress, whether or not we smoke cigarettes, how much exercise we get, and the quality of our relationships and support can be as powerful as drugs and surgery. And they often are.”
“People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.”
“People tend to think of fairy tales as archetypal. They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.”
“People tend to think of gentrification in terms of race because it's presented that way, and I think it's presented that way because in poor cities that's what's really going on. Beyond that, I think it's presented that way as a way for the people who are really pushing it to make it just a black problem, so people don't care.”
“People tend to think of overweight and obesity as strictly a personal matter, but there is much that communities can and should do to address these problems.”
“People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications.”
“People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.”
“People tend to think that because I'm a performer and I don't go to a regular high school that I haven't personally been affected by bullies. But it's actually quite the contrary.”
“People tend to think that big things only happen to big people ... I think that is not true. The small decisions we make every day define who we are and define the world around us. ... But I bet to you there is a decision every day in your life where you affect somebody else.”
“People tend to think that hate is the most dangerous emotion. But love is equally dangerous,” Will said. “There are many stories of spirits haunting the places and people who meant the most to them. In fact, there are more of those than there are revenge stories.”
“People tend to think that if someone is a movie star, that automatically everything is easier and there is less pressure. But all of them still keep that pressure on, are still inspired and still care about the work.”
“People tend to think that in order to start a new business they have to come up with something new and dazzling, but that's a myth - and it's often propagated by venture capitalists.”
Source: The Dream: How I Learned the Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship and Made Millions
“People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.”
Source: The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker
“People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise.”
Source: Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality
“People tend to think that money makes them strong, but it's those that learn to survive without it, are truly the stronger.”
“People tend to think that paying a debt is like going out and buying a car, buying more food or buying more clothes. But it really isn't. When you pay a debt to the bank, the banks use this money to lend out to somebody else or to yourself. The interest charges to carry this debt go up and up as debt grows.”
“People tend to think they know you when u come into their tv's every week. They think you are different than who you are. Don't believe everything u here.”
“People tend to think when you're on dramatic films, that it's all so heavy, but it's really not when you're working with great actors.”
“People tend to try to find something to talk about Zuma. My surname is very nice and simple. Very simple, so they like pronouncing it all the time. So what's the problem?”
“People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality.”
“People tend to view history as if it were another planet and think the modern world was invented in 1963. I don't agree.”
“People tend to view land art as something that happened at a certain historical moment - like minimal art, which I was also very much involved with. But it still goes on. It's very much alive.”
“People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.”
“People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.”
“People tend to wear a suit without a tie but it's a strange look, there's something missing. Either you wear a blazer and slacks, or you wear a suit and tie. It is challenging today to dress in an appropriate way.”
“People tend to wear the mask that shows them off in the best possible light - humble, confident, diligent. They say the right things, smile, and seem interested in our ideas. They learn to conceal their insecurities and envy. [...] People continually leak out their true feelings and unconscious desires in the
nonverbal cues they cannot completely control--facial expressions,
vocal inflections, tension in the body, and nervous gestures. [...] On the other hand, since appearances are what people judge you by, you must learn how to present the best front and play your role to maximum effect.”
Source: The Laws of Human Nature
“People tend to weigh their most recent experiences more than the affairs of the past.”
“People tended to forgive only partially. They forgave in order to, one day, get a chance to remind those they’d forgiven about their failings. They forgave to feel righteous. That’s why forgiveness was so painful – because it meant conceding. It meant letting go of her case without a rebuttal. True forgiveness knew no justice. It was liberating, most probably… but freedom comes at a cost. Freedom is never free.”
Source: Consequence
“People tended to hastily judge others based on their elocution, mocking or rejecting those who appeared or sounded different.”
Source: Threads of Deception: A Suddenly French Mystery
“People tends to predict, and finally all your value comes to the point of your unpredictability..!”
“People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.”
“People tethered to God by faith can let themselves go because they know they will get themselves back.”
“People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. They talk about highlighting, of course they're covering gray, but they don't talk about it that way. They're going to get their colors because they need a little lightening.”
“People that are born beautiful like supermodels act like entitled a**holes. It makes you embarrassed just to see 'em. They handle beauty embarrassingly.”
“People that are brilliant and successful, we think they've just always been that way. That's not the case. Most of them have had some tough adversity in their life. It's prepared them. I've never felt like you could develop character without adversity.”
“People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.”
“People that are hiding truth deep within themselves will live a life cloaked in total anxiety.”