“For thousands of years, China developed its own political system. Its rulers, no matter who they are, are given a conditional right to govern by the people. In the past, but even now it is called a "Heavenly Mandate". If the rulers fail to respect the will of the people, they get deposed. And the Communist Party of China is greatly respectful of the desires of the majority of the Chinese people.” PeopleIfsYearsMatterPastPoliticalDesireGivenPartyFailingMajorityChinaChineseHeavenlyCommunistRulersRespectfulPolitical SystemsMandatesCommunist PartyConditionalPeople From The Past Author:Andre Vltchek
“A lot of people preach that, if we put guns in the hands of good people, that will outweigh the guns in the hands of bad people, but what we fail to look at is the mental stability of these people, no matter how good or bad they are.” PeopleIfsLooksMatterHandsFailingGunStabilityGood PeopleBad PeopleMental Stability Author:Edwin Hodge
“Sometimes people fail to see that individual decisions have universal consequences.” PeopleSometimesIndividualDecisionFailingConsequenceUniversal Author:Yaya Toure
“The fire in the bellies of the good people who work for a more fair and just world for all of us - that spark never fails to inspire me and warm my heart.” PeopleWorldHeartFireFailingInspireMy HeartFairsWarmSparksGood PeopleBelly Author:Sally Kohn
“There are so many things that we could do to change the world in so many aspects. There are people working in nonprofit organizations, tackling the issues that we so desperately need to face, while governments fail so appallingly.” PeopleWorldNeedsGovernmentFacesIssuesFailingAspectOrganizationChanging The WorldTacklingNonprofits Author:Annie Lennox
“We still have the illusion that the ocean will recover. That even if we do have to lose sharks, people don't understand why this matters. The evidence is in front of us, and we fail to take it in and say, "Now I get it. Now I understand."” PeopleIfsStillsMatterLosesFailingFrontsOceanIllusionEvidenceSharks Author:Sylvia Earle
“Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.” PeopleSaidHouseHoursFailingCarTaughtBiographiesCleaningGreat PeopleClean House Author:Tony Robbins
“What bothers me is that I don't see the eagerness for a genuine solution to the political people on the opposite side. They want to continue to use the grievance, to use whatever happened hundreds of years ago that did not even happen to them, as a way of expressing how this country is failing or is less than decent and good.” PeopleWayWantYearsCountryUseHappensPoliticalSidesFailingHappenedSolutionsYears AgoOppositesGenuineBotherDecentGrievanceEagerness Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think a lot of people think that just because you have a celebrity attached to your company, that all things are easy. I don't have a stat to back this up, but my experience has shown me that more often than not, celebrity production companies fail.” PeopleThinkingEasyCompanyFailingAll ThingsProductions Author:Mike Jackson
“Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were.” PeopleWantSometimesKnownFailingGood FriendMy Best FriendReally Good Friends Author:Kato Kaelin
“Francis Ford Coppola didn't come out of the womb with The Godfather. He had a whole build up until he got to that point. I think it's okay to fail. That's how you learn. I think that's hopefully what people can take away from this movie.” PeopleThinkingWholeFailingOkayHopefullyWomb Author:Alex Stapleton
“If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.” PeopleIfsFirstsLooksMayBeliefStrongCompanyFailingEffectsSucceedAssumingImpressionCompetentFirst ImpressionHalosGood First Impression Author:Daniel Kahneman
“If we fail to feed the needy, we do not have God's love, no matter what we say. Regardless of what we do or say at 11am in a Sunday morn, affluent people who neglect the poor are not the people of God.” PeopleIfsMatterPoorFailingNo Matter WhatSundayNeglectGod's LoveNeedyAffluentLove No Matter What Author:Ronald J. Sider
“It's one of the underappreciated skills required by an innovator - they have to be able to convince lots of people to do things that might not be fully rational (invest in the company, join something that is likely to fail, try a product they've never seen before), and if you can't tell a good story it is just very hard to make that happen.” PeopleIfsTryingHardStoriesMightHappensAbleCompanyFailingProductsSkillsRationalConvinceGood StoryInnovators Author:Scott D. Anthony
“The recent AP poll that came out last month said that approximately 90% of the American people felt that the two-party system was failing us in the presidential election.” PeopleSaidTwoLastsFeltPartyFailingMonthsElectionPresidentialPollsPresidential ElectionTwo Party System Author:Jill Stein
“In my view, this is not extremism on the left. This is what the American people support in poll after poll. Support the right to a job. Support living wages. Support real climate action. Support small community-based banks that make loans available to every day people and small businesses, not these too-big-to-fail banks that rip us off, that crash the economy at taxpayer expense. Support a public-option healthcare system, not Obamacare, which has been a boondoggle for insurance and pharmaceutical companies.” PeopleHas BeensRealBigsActionJobsLeftCommunityViewsCompanySupportEconomyFailingClimateAvailableExpensesHealthcareCrashWagesSmall BusinessPollsLoanRipTaxpayersExtremismObamacarePharmaceuticalLiving WageClimate ActionPharmaceutical CompaniesSmall Communities Author:Jill Stein
“We've seen an economy stifled by more taxes, more regulation, a war on coal and a failing health care reform come to be known as Obamacare and the American people know that we need to make a change.” PeopleKnowsNeedsWarCareKnownEconomyFailingTaxesReformHealth CareRegulationCoalMaking ChangesObamacareHealth Care Reform Author:Mike Pence
“Here's what people should look at as they look at a public servant. Do they have a passion in their life that showed up before they were in public life? And have they held onto that passion throughout their life, regardless of whether they were in office or not, succeeding or failing. Hillary Clinton has that passion, from a time as a kid in a methodist youth group in the suburbs of Chicago, she has been focused on serving others with a special focus on empowering families and kids.” PeopleShouldLooksHas BeensKidsPassionFocusFailingGroupsSpecialYouthSucceedOfficeClintonFocusedServantEmpoweringServingChicagoPublic LifeServing OthersSuburbsPublic ServantsMethodists Author:Tim Kaine
“I was reading a Time magazine interview with an author named Brené Brown. She said, "People that fail seem to ultimately do the same thing they think works over and over again." I had an epiphany and called my manager and started a creed with my producers. I promised we'd do whatever was best for the song and the album - no ego would get in the way.” PeopleThinkingWaySaidSeemsSongReadingFailingEgoAlbumsProducersMagazinesManagersInterviewsBrownCreedsEpiphanyTime Magazine Author:Michael Buble