“When you get older, you kind of learn when something is done, you just walk away. Sometimes people just want to keep fixing things. But you know it's kind of just like your gut that tells you, "You're done, walk away" because you can always keep fixing it.” PeopleKnowsWantKindSometimesDoneWalksLike YouGutsFixingFixing Things Author:Rob Zombie
“That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.” PeopleStoriesAmericaPassionCoursesTermChangedLike YouFollowingDeterminedTitlesFancyStory People Author:Barack Obama
“Being popular is important. Otherwise people might not like you.” PeopleImportantMightLike YouPopularityWise PeopleBeing Popular Author:Mimi Pond
“Really good customer service will deliver sales. You are training salesmen to give the best possible advice and then to achieve the sale. People actually like you to ask for a sale because it shows you value their business.” PeopleGivingShowsValuesAsksAchieveAdviceLike YouTrainingCustomersSalesmanSales PeopleGood Customer Service Author:John Caudwell
“I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me.” PeopleFactsRecordsLike YouApproachLike MeHistorianGood Writers Author:Shunroku Hata
“Sometimes you need to let people feel important by disliking you. It's their little happiness.” PeopleNeedsFeelsLittlesImportantSometimesLike You Author:Shahrukh Khan
“If you have people that totally support you and have your back, I feel like you have all the confidence in the world, and you believe that you can do things that most people can't achieve. I feel that's really important.” PeopleIfsWorldFeelsBelieveImportantCan DoSupportAchieveLike YouSupport You Author:Nicolas Cage
“People who go to festivals to watch films are usually a little more eager to enjoy them. It's exciting, because it's like you're going to the film's opening night at every festival.” PeopleLittlesFilmNightEnjoyWatchesLike YouExcitingOpeningFestivalsOpening Night Author:Dito Montiel
“If you're in a subordinate position of some sort and pretty much all of us are at some point in our lives, your general tendency is to try and impress the people above you or person above you so well that they will like you, keep you or maybe promote you. In the process of doing that you are not aware that that person above has insecurities and if you try so hard they may see that you are after their job or that you are better than they are or they might envy the fact you are younger.” PeopleIfsTryingWellsMayPersonsHardFactsMightJobsProcessOur LivesPositionLike YouEnvyTendenciesInsecurityImpressSubordinates Author:Robert Greene
“I feel my job as an artist is to drive people to country radio. That's my job as a country artist. So these streaming places, especially these on-demand streaming places, where you can just push a button and hear it as many times as you want, like YouTube, any of that stuff, that's taking all the ears away from country radio.” PeopleWantFeelsCountryJobsArtistStuffLike YouDemandEarsRadioButtonsYoutubeStreamingCountry Artist Author:Garth Brooks
“Something I don't like seeing in other people is naked ambition, when somebody is really pushing hard to get to where they want to be. That's the way I look at that word - like you must be stepping on someone to get there. And I've never been comfortable with that.” PeopleWayWantLooksHardSeeingLike YouAmbitionComfortableNakedPushing Author:Clive Owen
“I'm good at my job for a midwestern American. Maybe it's because people in fashion often mistake common sense for genius. I mean, some model walks down the runway in an impossible outfit, and I state the obvious ? no one is going to wear that ? and people are like, you're brilliant!.” PeopleMeanStatesJobsWalksCommonMistakeImpossibleFashionLike YouGeniusModelsObviousBrilliantCommon SenseRunway Author:David Wolfe
“By a network I don't necessarily mean your customers or clients. I mean a network of people who know you, like you, and trust you. They might never buy a thing from you, but they've always got you in the backs of their minds. They're people who are personally invested in seeing you succeed... They're your army of personal walking ambassadors.” PeopleKnowsMindMeanMightSeeingLike YouWalkingSucceedArmyCustomersClientsAmbassadors Author:Bob Burg
“There's not one club in Europe with an anthem like You'll Never Walk Alone. There's not one club in the world so united with their fans. I sat there watching the Liverpool fans and they sent shivers down my spine. A mass of 40,000 people became one force behind their team. That's something not many teams have. For that I admire Liverpool more than anything.” PeopleWorldForceWalksUnitedBehindsTeamFansLike YouMassEuropeClubsAdmireSatSpineLiverpoolShiverAnthemLiverpool Fans Author:Johan Cruijff
“Ive never had a celebrity crush! I dont believe in those, really. I feel like you have to get to know the person before you start to feel anything like that. People always think they know celebrities, but how can you when youve never met them?” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsBelievePersonsLike YouMetsCrush Author:David Archuleta
“Having haters is just a part of the business, and the more haters you have, the more people like you - that's how I view it, because I try to see the positive in things.” PeopleTryingViewsLike You Author:Nick Jonas
“You don't ever want to appear like you're wearing too much makeup. If you have a heavy eye and a heavy lip, people are like, 'Wow, what are you trying to cover up?'” PeopleIfsWantTryingEyeToo MuchLike YouLipsHeavyMakeupWowCover Ups Author:Emma Roberts
“I don't like it when people are trying too hard. That goes for clothes, for acting, for everything. It's just not good when it seems like you're making too much of an effort.” PeopleTryingHardSeemsEffortActingToo MuchLike YouClothesTrying Too Hard Author:Clive Owen
“I'm at a period in my life when I'm figuring out my idea of who I am and what I want and how to hold onto love -- all that big stuff. And I'm starting to realize that it can happen at any age. I know people who are in their 50s who are figuring out what they want and who they are, and I think it's great. It's like you're always approaching life as a beginner.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantIdeasBigsHappensAgeStuffRealizingLike YouPeriodsStartingWho I AmBeginnersBig StuffApproaching Life Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“Don't be afraid to be yourself just because you're not like everybody else in class. If you want to dye your hair green and that's what makes you happy, then dye your hair green, no matter what other people might say about it. Not everybody is going to like you - that's the world we live in; that's reality.” PeopleIfsWorldWantMatterRealityMightClassLike YouHairNo Matter WhatGreenBeing YourselfMake You Happy Author:Rihanna
“You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindChildrenTwoHardWholeWould BeTurnsAnimalChildhoodLike YouCreaturesAdultsAll KindsMessSubstanceHopelessSplitsSurvivedCandyTurmoilHandyLavaUncomplicatedSeethingHard Candy Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“When a movie like 'Superbad' or 'Moneyball' comes out, people make you feel like you're the most important person on the planet. The truth is, you're a billion percent not the most important person on the planet. It's all insulated in your world and no one could care less. It's just a movie.” PeopleWorldFeelsPersonsImportantCarePlanetsLike YouTruth IsPercentBillionsImportant PersonMost Important PersonCould Care Less Author:Jonah Hill
“I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.” PeopleKindLittlesBitsResponsibilityHeardLike YouBecomingLittle BitAdultsResponsibleBillsAdulthoodScrewsEarly 20sBecoming An Adult Author:Dan Byrd
“Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. Its not really anything; its just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.” PeopleKnowsActorsPlayerTalentLike YouDeterminationLuckCardsPreparationDrive And Determination Author:Shia LaBeouf
“You don't just go to the studio and say, 'I'm going to write a hit.' It becomes a hit when people like your compositions.” PeopleWritingLike YouStudiosComposition Author:Chuck Berry
“Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.” PeopleKnowsI CanRealHonestyLike YouFameTerrifiedReal You Author:Charlie Cox
“We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity; it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.” PeopleIfsNeedsMatterShowsPayBrainWorryLike YouOkayChecksPopularity Author:Mika Brzezinski
“I noticed that difference early on, like if you were successful in rock 'n' roll, that was a really bad thing, you almost had to hide it. You had these guys selling 200 million records with dirty T-shirts on. I was like, 'Come on, man. Come on. We know you're successful.' Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenEnoughBigsGuyDifferencesWealthMillionsSuccessfulRecordsRocksLike YouHip HopSellingHipsDirtyShirtsHopsBad ThingsRock N RollT Shirt Author:Jay-Z
“Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!” PeopleKnowsFeelsLike YouSkinsTradeMatureWiserGetting OldGetting OlderKnow YourselfWiser You Author:Anna Kournikova
“All over the world, girls are raised to be make themselves likeable, to twist themselves into shapes that suit other people. Please do not twist yourself into shapes to please. Don't do it. If someone likes that version of you, that version of you that is false and holds back, then they actually just like that twisted shape, and not you. And the world is such a gloriously multifaceted, diverse place that there are people in the world who will like you, the real you, as you are.” PeopleIfsWorldRealGirlLike YouPleaseShapesRaisedLikesVersionsSuitsDiverseTwistsTwistedReal YouLikeable Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“The group-effort sound in recording of Sea Lion is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. Theres a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.” PeopleRealEnergySoundRoomsEffortGroupsSeaLike YouTrainLionsGroup Effort Author:Feist
“Thirty, I really like you but I still have to see other people.” PeopleStillsLike YouThirtyReally Like You Author:Rita Rudner
“You meet people who say, "Oh, I'd like to do such-and-such, but I don't have the time." But it always seemed to me like you make the time. And if you have a wife or a job, if you have kids or whatever, you find a way. If you really want to do it, you make the time.” PeopleIfsWayWantKidsJobsWifeLike You Author:David Sedaris
“Kid problems are when you're bummed because girls don't like you or something silly, but then you get older and people start dying and going broke and whatever. People get sick. When you get older these things just happen.” PeopleProblemHappensKidsGirlDyingLike YouSickSillyBroke Author:Patrick Stump
“People who don't like you almost never come up to you. That's a lot of years of saying things that I know a lot of people in this country hate me for. And the number of times someone has come up to me and said something negative, I could count on one hand.” PeopleKnowsYearsSaidCountryHandsHateNumbersLike YouNegativeCome UpUp To YouHate Me Author:Bill Maher
“Some people say they're retired and it means they have time to do things they want to do. I have always had the privilege to engage in my hobbies as if they were work. And they are. So hobbies are work, but work that you want to do; they are play. Retirement? That sounds like you're going to passively walk into the sunset and disappear.” PeopleIfsWantMeanPlaySoundWalksLike YouPrivilegeDisappearSunsetRetirementHobbiesRetired Author:Diane Keaton
“People are conditioned to just you know, like, you know we're like little birdies going to the bird feeder you know, or the little cows going to the salt lick. We just like what we've seen before.” PeopleKnowsLittlesLike YouBirdCowsSalt Author:Ethan Hawke
“As I go on in standup, I keep being described as cleaner and cleaner as I do each hour, they're like, 'It's unbelievable how clean,' 'He's the cleanest person in the world.' And then I'll do shows and people will be like, 'You're supposed to be so clean, but you're talking about cancer.'” PeopleWorldPersonsShowsHoursTalkingLike YouGoes OnCleanCancerSupposed To BeUnbelievableCleaners Author:Jim Gaffigan
“If you're remarkable, then it's likely that some people won't like you. That's part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous praise - ever. The best the timid can hope for is to be unnoticed. Criticism comes to those who stand out. Playing it safe. Following the rules. They seem like the best ways to avoid failure. Alas, that pattern is awfully dangerous. The current marketing “rules” will ultimately lead to failure. In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.” PeopleIfsWaySeemsFailingDangerousLike YouSafeStandingCriticismPraiseBusyMarketingPatternsDefinitionsCurrentsFollowingInvisibleBest WayRemarkableStanding OutAlasMarketplaceCrowdedFittingUnnoticedPlaying It Safe Author:Seth Godin
“I used to hold back because people would get offended, but now I'm like, 'You're going to hear me, regardless. Whether you accept what I have to say or not is on you.'” PeopleUsedAcceptingLike YouOffended Author:Trick Daddy
“The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others and so we have lots of copies but few originals.” PeopleTryingProblemLike YouUniqueOriginalsCopiesEmulateLike Yourself Author:Walt Disney
“I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. Im not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive.” PeopleThinkingWantYoungDifferencesLevelsNumbersLike YouOfficeBurdenNot SureExpensiveMaking A DifferencePublic OfficeLike Yourself Author:Birch Bayh
“I have always had stuff on the internet, way back in the Myspace days, I had a lot of friends on Myspace. And it is just all about like networking - contacting people and showing people, like, your mind.” PeopleWayMindStuffLike YouInternetNetworkingLots Of Friends Author:Kreayshawn
“LinkedIn's got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it's like, 'You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?' People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.” PeopleWantLittlesDoeEndsNamesProgressInformationLike YouPercentTasksBoxesBarsChecksLinkedin Author:Jesse Schell
“People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of Wired magazine. [Then things began to change. In the early 80s,] we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.” PeopleTodayYoungTechnologyLike YouLoversMetsComputerMagazinesAttachment80sUnhealthyYoung LoveSmitten Author:Sherry Turkle
“You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others will not. That's how the world works.” PeopleWorldShouldTryingLike YouPleaseExpected Author:David Maister
“It's different as a coach because you feel responsible for a lot of people. Even though you don't take a shot, you don't get a rebound, you feel like you just want people to succeed and you want to help them any way you can.” PeopleWayWantFeelsDifferentHelpingLike YouSucceedShotsResponsibleCoachesChampionshipNba ChampionshipsRebound Author:Steve Kerr
“It's not like you do 'SNL' and then get handed movie roles. You work, you audition for stuff and try to get it. I think, a lot of people, it's the goal to be in movies or just to be working in general. But yeah, some of us get lucky and get some movie roles, and it's nice.” PeopleThinkingTryingStuffGoalRolesNiceLike YouLuckyYeahAuditionsSnl Author:Bobby Moynihan
“As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal and in a way like you don't have any problems and that it's all fantastic and glamorous and that you wake up in the morning, you kick the groupies out of bed, you roll onto the floor onto a needle, right, which fills you with a lovely substance, you roll into the gutter and you stare at the moon and out comes beautiful poetry. The fact of the matter is that that's nonsense. It's a lot of hard work.” PeopleWayKindMatterHardFactsProblemBeautifulDifficultAnimalPartyMorningHard WorkLike YouBedMoonMusicianTreatsWake UpDinnerLovelyFantasticSubstanceStaringKicksNonsenseGlamorousNeedlesExoticDinner PartyGuttersGroupieBeautiful PoetryExotic Animals Author:Brian Molko
“If you don't connect yourself to your family and to the world in some fashion, through your job or whatever it is you do, you feel like you're disappearing, you feel like you're fading away, you know? I felt like that for a very very long time. Growing up, I felt like that a lot. I was just invisible; an invisible person. I think that feeling, wherever it appears, and I grew up around people who felt that way, it's an enormous source of pain; the struggle to make yourself felt and visible. To have some impact, and to create meaning for yourself, and for the people you come in touch with.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldWayFeelsPersonsLongFeelingsPainJobsFeltStruggleGrowing UpGrowingFashionLike YouSourceGrewGrew UpLong TimeImpactDisappearInvisibleEnormousOur FamilyVisibleFadingFading Away Author:Bruce Springsteen