“Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern. Just the slow erosion of the self, as insidious as any cancer. And, like cancer, it is essentially a solitary experience. A room in hell with only your name on the door.” PeopleSelfNamesRoomsHellDoorsBloodConcernTestsCancerPunishmentSolitaryFeverInsidiousErosionBlood Tests Author:Martha Manning
“When you venture at life with curiosity, you can learn from anything. You learn from things that you could never maybe thought you could learn from. And when you actually step into the room with a lot of people who have an education in a classroom, that is very similar to other people's educations, you'll actually come with a unique perspective that could be a valuable perspective that creates an innovation that could change the world.” PeopleWorldRoomsStepsPerspectiveUniqueInnovationCuriosityValuableChanging The WorldClassroomVentureUnique Perspective Author:Ashton Kutcher
“When you work in front of the people, either in a film or in television, the people who are in the room with you are not watching you work, they're working so you'd have to light a fire to get them to watch what you were doing.” PeopleLightFilmRoomsWatchesFireFrontsTelevision Author:Richard Dreyfuss
“It seemed like so much of romantic relationships today have to do when the people are not in the same room. Whether it's texting or emailing or Facebooking, there's a kind of distance between the participants. I think it's sort of shifted the energy of that first romantic meeting, where it's quicker, perhaps more desperate, more energetic, in a whole different way, and it's resulted in a situation where people seem to be sometimes more comfortable having a sexual relationship than an emotional one.” PeopleThinkingWayFirstsKindDifferentSometimesWholeSeemsTodayEnergyRoomsSituationEmotionalComfortableDistanceMeetingsDifferent WaysDesperateEnergeticParticipantsTextingRomantic Relationship Author:Ivan Reitman
“I'm a huge lover of going to the theater and having that experience of people in the room. Any time you go to an experience like this, you hear it in a different way because sound systems are different.” PeopleWayDifferentSoundRoomsHugeLoversTheaterDifferent WaysSound Systems Author:Sandra Bullock
“There is always need for good foster parents, people who have room in their homes, the openhearted people.” PeopleNeedsHomeParentRoomsFoster Parent Author:Antwone Fisher
“Much of romantic relationships today have to do when the people are not in the same room. Whether it’s texting or emailing or Facebooking, there’s a kind of distance between the participants.” PeopleKindTodayRoomsDistanceParticipantsTextingRomantic RelationshipMailing Author:Ivan Reitman
“People of conscience in our leadership in Washington have been scared off by the right and the fossil fuel lobbies. They won't even use the term "sustainability" or "climate change" in an energy bill, which is ludicrous on its face. It completely ignores the elephant in the room that we're all dealing with. The average American doesn't even believe climate change is real, they think it's all a hoax.” PeopleThinkingBelieveHas BeensRealUseFacesEnergyTermRoomsConscienceBillsClimateClimate ChangeAverageScaredFuelSustainabilityElephantsFossilsFossil FuelHoaxesElephant In The Room Author:James Cameron
“I've been in Africa, and I've been to hospitals of Africa, and they're not hospitals, they're places where people go to die. And rows and rows and rows of people just dying and the waiting rooms of the hospitals are full of people waiting to get into the beds of the people who died the night before, and they're dying from unnecessary diseases.” PeopleNightDiesWaitingRoomsDyingBedDiseaseDiedHospitalsUnnecessaryWaiting Rooms Author:Richard Branson
“If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.” PeopleIfsTryingPersonsAbilityRoomsTalentIronSurroundSmarterSurround Yourself Author:Jake M. Johnson
“I know my voice is very distinctive because in a room of 100 people, my voice is always picked out.” PeopleKnowsVoiceRoomsDistinctive Author:Kevin Gates
“If you keep your perspective correct and understand that people are coming to you because your gift makes room for you in the world, then you do not need to wonder or worry about having to misplace your importance as a person.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsPersonsRoomsWonderWorryPerspectiveImportance Author:Myles Munroe
“I can't stand those people, speakers in a room, they say this all the time, "If I can just help one person in this room, I've done my job." You have an audience of 500 people and your standard of success is one person? That's terrible. If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.” PeopleIfsPersonsI CanDoneHelpingJobsRoomsAudienceTerribleStandardsSpeakers Author:Simon Sinek
“My mother gave me an understanding that as good as you think you are, you're not so great. There's always room for improvement. The reality is when people don't have someone to give them a sense of guidance, and say, "Hey, man, that's not happening," it's really hard.” PeopleThinkingMenGivingHardRealityMotherUnderstandingRoomsHappeningsImprovementHeyGuidanceAlways Room For ImprovementRoom For Improvement Author:Stevie Wonder
“When you write, you're alone in a room. And when someone reads a book, they're alone in a room, too, usually. It's a really intimate exchange. And so people ask me where I get the boldness to talk about this or that, but I didn't feel like it required any sort of courage, because I was alone. Sometimes it feels weird for people to read it.” PeopleFeelsWritingBookSometimesAsksRoomsAsk MeIntimateBoldness Author:Donald Miller
“In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own show - no one casts you. You cast your own show as a stand-up comedian. When you get good at stand-up comedy you book a theater and if people show up, people show up. If people don't show up, people don't show up. You don't have a director or a casting agent or anybody saying if you're good enough - the audience will decide.” PeopleIfsBookEnoughShowsRoomsAudienceComedyDirectorsTheaterCastsAgentsComedianGood EnoughCastingStand Up ComedyStand Up Comedian Author:Jim Jefferies
“Standup is tough; if you are going through a hard period in your life, it is very hard to get up in front of people and be the happy guy in the room.” PeopleIfsHardGuyRoomsFrontsPeriodsToughGet Up Author:Doc Brown
“A certain number of people have to live their lives outdoors between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and a certain number of people can only leave their homes between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. So basically, public life has to be lived in these shifts, in order for everyone to fit on the streets because there's just no more room for any more infrastructure, any more highways. So it polarizes the community into day people and night people, and it becomes sort of a metaphor for racism and classism.” PeopleHomeNightCertainOrderCommunityRoomsNumbersStreetsFitRacismMetaphorHighwaysInfrastructurePublic LifeClassism Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“These are folks that keep people out of hospitals, out of emergency rooms, out of nursing homes. And not only that, they help people achieve more fulfilling lives.” PeopleHelpingHomeRoomsAchieveFolksHospitalsFulfillingEmergenciesNursingFulfilling LifeNursing HomeEmergency Room Author:Atul Gawande
“I learned what I could do with my voice on stages and because of the people that I was around. It wasn't me sitting in a room by myself. I didn't know what I was doing. I was figuring it out on the fly.” PeopleKnowsVoiceRoomsStageSittingFiguring It Author:Mike Patton
“People go to Vegas, and they don't know what to do; here's what you do. You go to the casino in your hotel. On your arrival, you get $100 in quarters. Take that $100 back to your hotel room and stare at it for a long, long time. Why? Because you're never going to see them again. Then you take those quarters to the bathroom and you flush them, one by one by one. And the nice thing about that is that every so often the toilet will back up, and you'll feel like a WINNER!” PeopleKnowsFeelsLongHumorFunnyRoomsNiceLong TimeWinnerStaringHotelQuartersBathroomToiletsVegasNice ThingsArrivalsHotel RoomsCasinos Author:Lewis Black
“I did Scottish footballer of the year this year, attempted to do some comedy at that. Not the brightest people in the world. There were seven O-Levels in that room, and they were all mine.” PeopleWorldYearsHumorFunnyLevelsRoomsComedyMinesSevenFootballerScottish Author:Frankie Boyle
“When you're making a critical decision, you have to understand how it's going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you're talking to, but the people that aren't in the room. Everybody else.” PeoplePersonsDecisionRoomsViewsTalkingManagementCriticalPoint Of ViewCritical Decisions Author:Ben Horowitz
“The most important thing you can learn as CEO- one of the hardest things to do is, you have to discipline yourself to see your company... through the eyes of the people that you're working through. Through the eyes of the employees, through the eyes of your partners... through the eyes of the people who you're not talking to and who are not in the room.” PeopleImportantEyeRoomsCompanyTalkingDisciplineManagementImportant ThingsPartnersHardestThings To DoEmployeeCeoHardest ThingNot TalkingThrough The EyesHardest Thing To Do Author:Ben Horowitz
“Don't get me wrong. I like Disney World. The rest rooms are clean enough for neurosurgery, and the employees say things like "Howdy, folks!" and actually seem to mean it. You wonder: Where do they get these people? My guess: 1952. I think old Walt realized, way back then, that there would eventually be a shortage of cheerful people, so he put all the residents of south western Nebraska into a giant freezer with a huge picture of Jiminy Cricket on the outside, and the corporation has been thawing them out as needed ever since.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayMeanHas BeensEnoughHumorSeemsFunnyRoomsWonderHugeNeededCleanSouthWesternFolksCorporationsGiantsEmployeeCricketCheerfulShortageResidentsWaltNebraskaFreezerNeurosurgeryThawing Book:Dave Barry Talks Back Source: Dave Barry Talks Back
“When I first started doing comedy, there was no such thing as a room that had black people and white people in it. That didn't exist.” PeopleFirstsBlackWhiteRoomsComedyBlack People Author:Trevor Noah
“I think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in a pub. That's as funny as you get, and so the aim [while stand-up] is to get that funny on stage with 5,000 strangers, to get that funny in a room where people shouldn't be listening but they are.” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsRoomsKnownStageListeningAimStrangerComedianPubs Author:Ricky Gervais
“One of my New Year's resolutions was to interact more with people. That sounds quite technical, but literally face time. Not FaceTime, because that's a thing now, but to be in the room with someone. To turn your phone off. To sit and have dinner and just be there with somebody.” PeopleYearsFacesTurnsSoundRoomsPhonesDinnerResolutionNew YearNew Year's ResolutionsFacetime Author:Tom Hiddleston
“My design has always been a derivative of people I meet. I want to translate who they are and their personality into a room.” PeopleWantRoomsDesignPersonalityTranslateDerivatives Author:Jeremiah Brent
“I was telling some people in my dressing room some of my other stories, my psychotic break, and blah, blah, blah, and no, they kind of look at you and it's just not what they wanted to hear.” PeopleLooksKindStoriesWantedRoomsBreakDressingsPsychoticDressing RoomsBlah Author:Carrie Fisher
“God has called us into a place of tenderness, when nobody is looking, when there are no great decisions to make, when it’s just him and me in a hotel room, with no one to pray for, no one to preach to. When it is just two people in a room, that’s where you learn. That’s where you learn his heartbeat. That’s where you learn the presence. That’s where you learn the voice. It’s in the moments when nobody is watching, nobody is evaluating how good you’re doing. When it is just you and him.” PeopleTwoMomentsVoiceDecisionRoomsPrayingHotelTendernessHeartbeatEvaluateHotel Rooms Author:Bill Johnson
“Like a lot of people in the computer industry, Keith Malinowski had spent his whole life being the smartest person in the room, and like most of his fellows the experience left him with a rather high opinion of his opinions.” PeoplePersonsWholeLeftRoomsOpinionIndustryComputerFellowsWhole LifeKeith Author:Rick Cook
“I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanI CanWholeRoomsWake UpReactionsDrunk Author:Jim Morrison
“One of the many things I love about working with Ryan Murphy is that you're always thin-sliced in this business. You walk into a room and people want you to be how you look or how you're perceived or whatever it is in that 10 minutes that hey meet you. I think Ryan [Murphy] has an intuition that looks a little bit deeper and sees things that other people might not see in you - sometimes you might not even see in yourself - but that he knows are there and that he might want to get to grow and stretch with as an actor.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantLooksLittlesSometimesMightActorsGrowsBitsWalksRoomsMinutesLittle BitDeeperIntuitionHeyThings I LoveMurphy Author:Matt Bomer
“A lot of people don't really understand what rehearsal's about. People are afraid they're gonna leave it in the dressing room, or you're gonna shoot your wad in rehearsal.” PeopleRoomsDressingsRehearsalDressing Rooms Author:Jeff Bridges
“I've always loved to dance and keep fit but more recently I feel like I cannot keep up any longer and my back starts to hurt. And I get angry and then I have to really learn to forgive myself and go: you know what, you're nearly twice the age of some of the people in this room, give yourself a break.” PeopleKnowsGivingFeelsAgeHurtRoomsBreakFitAngryForgivingLearn To Forgive Author:Naomi Watts
“People believe that there's no room for change, there's no room to grow and if we're talking about this idea of God which is the infinite then there's no way that there's no room to grow because infinity is endless. So there must be more room to understand more and to evolve the way we think about this idea.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayBelieveIdeasGrowsRoomsTalkingInfiniteEndlessEvolveInfinity Author:Ziggy Marley
“The difference is in Hostel it's in the theatre - it's in public but it's in a private place. You have to actively make a choice to want to go see it. It's not being forced on anyone. Whereas 24 you can be flipping channels and it's right there in your living room. Anyone has access to that. But that just shows how mainstream it is and how people are seeing this stuff on YouTube. People are scared of it. This is a subject matter that everyone's talking about and everyone's thinking about, particularly in American culture.” PeopleThinkingWantMatterShowsChoicesCultureStuffDifferencesRoomsTalkingSeeingSubjectsScaredTheatreAccessMainstreamAmerican CultureYoutubeSubject MatterLiving Room Author:Eli Roth
“I'm a sucker for interiors and carefully, beautifully filmed people sitting in a big room. My appetites are simple.” PeopleBigsSimpleRoomsSittingAppetiteInteriorsSucker Author:Nicholson Baker
“When I was little, I would always lie about the stupidest things. In kindergarten or first grade, I would tell people I had tigers living in my attic and a room full of gold.” PeopleFirstsLittlesLyingRoomsGoldGradesTigersKindergartenStupidestAttics Author:Kendall Jenner
“There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell they look like, they don't know what it feels like to stand in a room with them.” PeopleKnowsFeelsLooksPersonsBigsRoomsHellGenerationsPaintingPlates Author:Julian Schnabel
“Feminism is still one of those taboo words, so hardly anybody talks about it. People usually go gender-neutral and say the book and film [Room] are about "the triumph of the human spirit.” PeopleHumansStillsBookFilmSpiritRoomsFeminismGenderTriumphHuman SpiritTaboo Author:Emma Donoghue
“I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style is very linked to the fact that it is a work of art on the wall. I had to find a way to write in concise, effective phrases that people standing or walking into a room could read.” PeopleWayWritingArtFactsCareRoomsStyleWallWalkingStandingDon't CareI Don't CarePhrasesWorks Of ArtI CareLinkedConciseWriting Style Author:Sophie Calle
“Auditioning is a funny one. It's all about energy. If you walk into a room and the room feels off or the people feel off, that can set you off. If the room is very small. I know which casting directors I should go to, because the place is conducive to doing a good job and the people are conducive and I know the other ones aren't, in which case I send in a tape.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsShouldJobsEnergyWalksRoomsCasesDirectorsTapeGood JobCastingCasting Directors Author:Max Irons
“The big room or big suite doesn't mean a lot to me. It is what the people do or don't do that matters.” PeopleMeanMatterBigsRooms Author:Alber Elbaz
“I hire people who can do their jobs and who will advise me of things they don't agree with. The worst thing you can do is get in a room with 14 people who say, "OK!" Then you really are making decisions about engineering and finance and other areas.” PeopleJobsCan DoDecisionRoomsWorstAreasAgreeFinanceEngineeringWorst ThingsAdviseMaking Decisions Author:Roger Ailes
“I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can always tell what temperature a room is in a Hitchcock film because the people feel alive, they don't feel like they're just being filmed on a stage.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFilmRoomsAliveStageExampleMastersLike YouRealmsJust BeingTemperatureHitchcockSensational Author:Tilda Swinton
“Usually, those people don't even like actors and they can't wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break down in categories: directors who like to be surprised and some of them abhor being surprised. As far as directing, we all direct when we're acting in movies... every single one of us.” PeopleKindActorsWaitingRoomsActingBreakCuttingDirectorsDirectCategoriesBreaking DownActing In Movies Author:Dustin Hoffman
“If you invite someone into your front room you can't be surprised when there are suddenly people outside your windows with cameras.” PeopleIfsRoomsFrontsWindowCamerasInvites Author:Daniel Craig
“If you have nothing to hide, if you're actually working for eight hours, or 10 or 12 hours, however long people decide to work, it's OK to have windows around conference rooms, it's OK to have cubicles. Because you're actually working. If you're not working, doing social media and spending half the day for personal stuff, then an environment like this will actually bother you.” PeopleIfsLongSocialStuffHoursRoomsHalfEnvironmentMediaWindowSocial MediaEightSpendingBotherWorking ItConferencesCubiclesPersonal Stuff Author:Marcelo Claure