P Quotes
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“People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of priorities drives their use of time and it can shift away from the ordinary work that’s easy to justify, in favor of the more ethereal, deeper things that are harder to justify. They protect their time from trivia and idiocy; these people are time rich. They provide themselves with a surplus of time. They might seem to idle, or relax more often than the rest, but that just might be a sign of their mastery, not their incompetence.”
“People who truly know how to wonder don't expend a great deal of energy talking about it; they are off catching snowflakes on hot tongues. They're folding themselves in half to smell the sweet potatoes in the oven just one more time. I no longer try to convince someone of the delight of soup dumplings; I take them to Dim Sum Garden on Race Street in Philly and let them watch me slurp. I let the steaming miracle broth run down my face and lap it up in remembrance.
I think awe is an exercise, both a doing and a being. It is a spiritual muscle of our humanity that we can only keep from atrophying if we exercise it habitually.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!”
“People who truly love to sing have to do it all the time.”
“People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.”
“People who truly serve God actively look for darkness in order to chase darkness away, they run after darkness, they search for darkness in all its ramifications and destructive consequences.”
“People who truly serve God embrace light, they fall in love with light, and they proclaim light, they fight with light.”
“People who truly understand God's purpose for their lives know that we are called to be intimately involved with one another.”
Source: Better Than Good: Creating a Life You Can't Wait to Live
“People who trust me will not be swayed by what's been said about me, and for people who don't, no amount of good reports will persuade them.”
“People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.”
“People who try to be nice are false. They're liars. You should never force your behavior to be a certain way. You should just be. Maybe it's not going to be nice, but at least it'll be honest.”
Source: Brooke
“People who try to be something they are not, the most attractive thing to me are people who are 100% authentically them. And I appreciate and actually always look for people that are different than me in friendships, because that helps me grow.”
“People who try to boss themselves always want (however kindly) to boss other people. They always think they know best and are so stern and resolute about it they are not very open to new and better ideas.”
Source: If You Want to Write
“People who try to commit suicide - don't attempt to save them! . . . China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.”
“People who try to control people and change people's habits are the ones that make all the trouble. If you don't like somebody, walk away... But don't try and make them like you.”
Source: Harriet the Spy
“people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work out the way they want.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.”
“People who try to define their spirituality sometimes are annoying, 'cause the spirit is something you feel and let guide you and humbly respect.”
“People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong.”
“People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they are merely incidental, not the essence of the matter. Philosophy is about subtilizing and tuning up the coherence and acuity of one's seeing, it is about opening new dimensions for insight, learning to think about what one is doing when one thinks instead of just blundering through the processes of putting thoughts together.”
“People who type with their iPhones on loud are barbarians and probably killers.”
“People who underestimate their capabilities also bear costs, although, as already noted, these are more likely to take self-limiting rather than aversive forms. By failing to cultivate personal potentialities and constricting their activities, such persons cut themselves off from many rewarding experiences. Should they attempt tasks having evaluative significance, they create internal obstacles to effective performance by approaching them with unnerving self-doubts”
“People who understand basketball definitely appreciate what I bring to the table.”
“People who understand Doom don't blink an eye at song lengths.”
“People who understand everything get no stories.”
Source: Collected Short Stories of Bertolt Brecht
“people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous.”
Source: The English Orphans; Or, A Home in the New World
“People who understand how to convert their time into useful products do not complain of boredom. They have too many important tasks to accomplish that they can hardly get bored.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.”
“People who understands how to convert their time into useful products do not complain of boredom.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“People who use Class will never understand all the crap they are doing.”
“People who use logic are argumentative
People who see reality as relative; deliberate
People who are wise keep quiet
Sit in silence &meditate!
Expressions internalised... get #Mickeymized!”
“People who use LSD today know how to use it. Therefore, I hope that the health authorities will get the insight that LSD, if it is used properly, is not a dangerous drug. We actually should not refer to it as drug; this word has a very bad connotation. We should use another name.”
“People who use snark attacks confuse cleverness with cruelty.”
“People who use the mind and aggressive energy to blow their opponent away can be figured out. Anybody you can figure out you can defeat.”
“People who use their religion as a framework to kill people, simply , are not nice people. Yes, that's quite a stand I'm making, but the idea that people are systematically executed because they don't share your God is beyond barbaric. The fact that there are people in our own country who seem to tolerate that, while being intolerant of a Christian's biblical stance regarding gay marriage, makes me want to go to leave the United States and go to a more sensible place, like Texas.
There are more things I refuse to tolerate (pretentious music criticism, clove cigarettes, slow-moving ceiling fans, restaurant hostesses who pretend they own the joint, people who walk and text on a crowded sidewalk, Hostess Snowballs, people who drop subzero in their conversation when they aren't talking about the Arctic winds, people who bring their own bedroom pillows onto flights, pharmacists who yell out your prescription in front of other customers, Time Warner Cable, Sting's chest hair) but I'll get into that later.... I may not do that...though, because I refuse to tolerate lists. They're lazy. And listy.”
Source: The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage
“People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.”
“People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.”
Source: Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)
“People who violate your boundaries are thieves. They steal time that doesn’t belong to them.”
Source: The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: Achieve More Success with Less Stress: Foreword by Cal Newport, author of So Good They Can't Ignore You
“People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.'”
“People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.”
“People who wait for a magic wand fail to see that they ARE the magic wand.”
“People who wait for the right moment end up waiting forever.”
“People who wait for your service to go on sale are saying they don’t value you. They like you, but they’d like you better if you were more exploitable.”
Source: A Memoir of Memories and Memes
“People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers darkened in the dusk. One who leans against granite railing gazing into the evening waters, His hands resting on old stones.”
“People who walk by faith don't see obstacles, they see opportunities.”
“People who walk in audacious faith don't stop and pray. Audacious faith teaches us to push and pray.”
“People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.”
Source: One Minute Wisdom
“People who want a different Pakistan have to find a way to go back into their own past and revive the vision of their founders, that was clearly a tolerant and diverse one, so that they can distinguish it from the one that has been imposed upon it. If they can do that, they can take back this city and their country.”
“People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.”
“People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.”