P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“People think the greatest accomplishments, masterpieces, inventions came from being "focused" — they did...but not on one thing...singularly.
Masterpieces, breakthroughs, peaks come through integration.
Sequencing.
Mastery is the intersection of disciplines.”
“People think the leadoff spot is a big deal. I tell people you're going to lead off the first inning, and after that, you can be a No. 4 hitter or No. 3 hitter.”
“People think there is something wrong with Mike(Milbury). But there's method in his madness.”
“People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.”
“People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.”
“People think there's a single solution to complex problems, and the solution is often making an enemy of a group of people - pulling back and rejecting the other.”
“People think they are not satisfied with what they have but in true sense they are not satisfied with what they are.”
“People think they can take a pill and become a champion. But the harder you work, the luckier you get. You have to work a move hundreds or thousands of times.”
“People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.”
“People think they don’t understand math, but it’s all about how you explain it to them. If you ask a drunkard what number is larger, 2/3 or 3/5, he won’t be able to tell you. But if you rephrase the question: what is better, 2 bottles of vodka for 3 people or 3 bottles of vodka for 5 people, he will tell you right away: 2 bottles for 3 people, of course.”
“People think they get this gut feeling about things, but that’s not what it is. The truth is, it’s their mind noticing things and taking in details. The mind senses the danger; you're just not understanding why.”
Source: Unexpected Love
“People think they have all the time in the world, that they know how to plan things. And that is why they don't take chances. It's those who know that everything can change in the blink of an eye and that our plans are at the mercy of destiny: it's they who know how to take chances, how to make mistakes, how to live. Nothing is ever actually a mistake. Do the same mistake at a different time, in a different place, in a different season, and it would be considered perfect. There are no mistakes, there is only destiny colliding with time and with our own definition of planning. We make the mistake of trying to dictate, that's what we do. If we were not always trying to control time and outcome, we would see, that everything flows. It all flows. We try to put the river into a bucket and tell it where to go and that is the only actual mistake that any of us have ever made.”
“People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.”
Source: Basic writings on politics and philosophy
“People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.”
“people think they have to be good before they can act good. But ... it works just as well the other way 'round.”
Source: Rare Earth
“People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.”
“People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.”
“People think they know me from somewhere, and then I open my mouth and they realise it's me from Birds Of A Feather.”
“People think they know me, but they don`t. Not really. Actually, I am one of the loneliest people on this earth. I cry sometimes, because it hurts. It does. To be honest, I guess you could say that it hurts to be me.”
“People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.”
Source: Let The Great World Spin
“People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.”
“people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel
“People think they know who I am, because I've played so many very, very out gay men on stage, and they think that's me”
“People think they know you because they knew you, even if the person you were isn’t the person you are; even if the person you used to be is dead.”
Source: The Outsider’s Mind : A Collection of Short Stories and the Quotes They Inspired
“People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.”
“People think they learn history when they don’t know it’s written by politicians. But when they know, their study has nothing to do with history.”
“People think they need to be at a ski-inski-out resort, but the reality is it's not such a big deal to jump on a shuttle.”
“People think they need to be healed, but the truth is much more beautiful. Even a minute is more than we deserve. No one should be anything but dead. Instead we get honey of out rocks. Miracles from nothing. It’s easy. We don’t need to get better. We’re already us. And everything that is, is ours.”
“People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.”
Source: The Time Travelers: Volume One
“People think they want to know. Actually, if you ask—-how much would you pay to know, the answer is not much. . . . Do you care how your refrigerator works? No, as long as there’s a repairman around when it breaks down. Nobody really cares.”
“People think they want to know how magic works, but really they don't. How it works is never as amazing as what the trick was in the first place, so it's never going to make you feel good. Somebody just wanting to know how a trick works is never enough to make me want to tell them.”
“People think they will wake up one day and I'll be gone. But I'm never going away.”
“People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.”
“People think they're gonna make a living off poetry. Ten years ago, maybe a couple of people did. Right now, no one, I don't think.”
“People think they're in control, but they ain't. The truth is, that which must befall thee must befall thee. And that which must pass thee by must pass thee by.”
Source: Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
“People think this is all about the top players hitting tenins balls and they talk about technique and strategy and how important that is. But they don't understand the essence of competition. This is one-on-one, two players out there fighting each other with everything they have, trying to bring the best out of themselves. And the difference at this level of the game is all in the head and in the heart.”
“People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.”
“People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.”
“People think ultranatural means ultrasafe and free from scary chemicals. The reality is that plants are complex. In its raw form, shea butter can be irritating. We recommend sticking to refined shea; you'll have a range of options for texture.”
Source: Skincare Decoded: Revised and Expanded: The Practical Guide to Beautiful Skin
“People think updos are so hard, but they're not. Your hair should look tousled and undone. If I'm in a mood to go out and feel hot and sexy, I want long hair that I can feel on my back. But I also like bed head. Ill usually wash my hair and let it air-dry wavy, but if I'm just in a hang-out mood, I wont even wash it. Ill wait until it smells.”
“People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.”
“People think we don't give a toss about the game, but when I walked out of Windsor Park that night I felt lower than a snake's belly. The reality is still there.”
“People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.”
“People think we have coasted the last four years. We fought, we had a lot of battles. We've always had to battle.”
“People think we really look good. I think that's the biggest misconception people have.”
“People think what's in the US today is capitalism. It's not even close to capitalism. Capitalism doesn't have a central bank, capitalism doesn't have taxes, it doesn't have regulations; capitalism is just voluntary transactions. What they have in the US today I call crapitalism. But it's sad that so many people are confused and they think, 'Oh that's free markets in the US', when it's one of the least free market countries on earth.”
“People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.”
“People think with climate change what's going to happen is things are just going to get hotter. But that isn't really the whole story at all. One of the things that has happened in the past when the climate has changed a lot is that the glaciers melt, and so the weight on the tectonic crust is different, and that's the definition of an earthquake. If the tectonic plates are springing up or being pressed down, that's when earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen. So every scientist I spoke to who had studied this thinks that we're in for a wild time.”
“People think women directors are tough. Truth is, I'm a pussycat and I hate conflict. I just want everyone to be happy on set.”
“People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.”