P Quotes
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“People who seek attention, need all the help they can get.”
“People, who seek God, find answers to their question”
“People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious busybodies. People who actually achieve political power are to be trusted even less than those who seek it without success; winning elections requires a measure of deceitfulness and Machiavellian immorality that no decent person comes close to possessing.”
“People who seek psychotherapy for psychological, behavioral or relationship problems tend to experience a wide range of bodily complaints...The body can express emotional issues a person may have difficulty processing consciously...I believe that the vast majority of people don't recognize what their bodies are really telling them. The way I see it, our emotions are music and our bodies are instruments that play the discordant tunes. But if we don't know how to read music, we just think the instrument is defective.”
“people who seem most hostile to my presence are those most fearful of my fate. And since their fear keeps them emotionally distant from me, they are the ones least likely to learn that my life isn't half so dismal as they assume.”
Source: Waist-High In The World: A Life Among the Nondisabled
“People who self-handicap purposely shoot themselves in the foot in order to protect themselves from having to confront their possible shortcomings. Many self-handicapping behaviors are those small, subtle bad habits like being late, gossiping, micromanaging, behaving passive-aggressively, or being a perfectionist. We may not recognize these self-defeating--and self-handicapping--traits for what they are. Or we may even wrongly perceive them as strengths. But in truth, they often get in the way of us blooming.”
Source: Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement
“People who serve you without love get even behind your back.”
“People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother's fantasies. If you believe one wrong or strange thing, you are more likely to believe another.”
“People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.”
“People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.”
“People who should be the first to recognize the value of an innovation are often the last.”
“People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all.”
Source: The Joke
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.”
“People who simply live their life and care only about bearing children are under the influence of a misbelief that they are people”
“People who sit back and wait for somebody to take care of them are the people that if shown a way, can be useful to our society.”
“People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.”
“People who smile too much usually aren’t listening. They’re just waiting for their turn to talk.”
Source: The Deep Doesn’t Drown Me: A surreal coming-of-age story for outsiders, dreamers, and survivors
“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”
“People who smoke cigarettes, they say "You don't know how hard it is to quit smoking." Yes I do. It's as hard as it is to start flossing.”
“People who snack sometimes sometimes eat kind of thoughtlessly and end up eating a lot more. But in principle, it's a really good idea if you can exert the kind of discipline needed.”
“People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy”
Source: Master of the Senate
“People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under.”
Source: Collected Works of Charles R. Swindoll: A Collection Consisting of Living on the Ragged Edge
“People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change”
Source: Collected Works of Charles R. Swindoll: A Collection Consisting of Living on the Ragged Edge
“People who solve problems are happier.”
“People who speak badly about others are just mentally sketching themselves.”
“People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.”
“People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.”
Source: Reflections
“People who speak the same language can hate one another as easily as can people who speak unrelated languages.”
Source: WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK
“People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are oppressive are often a threat.”
“People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are repressive are often at threat.”
“People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be more naturally mindful than weeding? It requires a great deal of sustained attention. Weeds need to be taken up with care: Pull too hard, and the weed breaks in your fingers, leaving the root to grow and spread. Different weeds need different techniques and, sometimes, tools. When we weed our gardens, we have to pay attention to where and how we walk and bend. Move too far in one direction or another, and we'll squash growing things.”
“People who spend money on experiences instead of things are just happier all around.”
Source: The Employee Experience Advantage: How to Win the War for Talent by Giving Employees the Workspaces they Want, the Tools they Need, and a Culture They Can Celebrate
“People who spend their entire life dead will be buried twice.”
“People who spend their working hours in a lab or research library or a classroom might be intent primarily on keeping or advancing their elite positions, thereby lending tacit support to power structures. Or they might not be.”
“People who stand in the "middle-of-the-road" get run over.”
“People who stand near the water in the darkness are either lovers or poets. Or else ... one of that great gray number who've simply had it -- who throw in their hand and won't play anymore.”
“People who stand up against wars aren't necessarily always wrong.”
“People who stare deserve the looks they get.”
“People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.”
Source: Death in the Stocks
“People who stay away from home are always going home for the holidays. People who stay at home are always going away from home for the holidays.”
“People who stay in the same town with the same friends for their entire lives never get a chance to find out who they can really be, because they will always be considered as who they were.”
“People who stayed in AA for fewer than six months had worse outcomes than people who never entered AA at all. This finding seems to mirror the Brandsma data: AA attendees seem to get worse before they get better. One theory is that the finding is nothing but noise—the standard statistical turbulence that can foul any short-term study. But if the data are real and repeatable, then they suggest something the Moos researchers perhaps did not consider: that AA might do more harm than good for the people who choose to attend but do not buy into the program.”
Source: The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
“People who stop laughing are always the ones who get hurt.”
“People who stop learning become the owners of the past. People who still continue to study will be the future owners.”
“People who study psychology are invariably the ones who need the most work. I teach best that which I'm most in need of mastering.”
“People who stutter are less diffident or more confident in winter.”
“People who succeed are those who know how to mobilize all their physical and mental resources on a goal.”
“People who succeed at the highest level are not lucky; they're doing something differently than everyone else.”
Source: MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”