“Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.” PeopleLinesCommonVirtueTroubleShameGuidesPunishmentReformRite Book:Confucius: The Analects Source: Confucius: The Analects
“I believe that your own thoughts can bring on positive or negative effects. So the people who feel sick all the time are the ones who are going to get sick, and the people who are constantly worried about what's going on around them... those are the ones in trouble.” PeopleFeelsBelieveI BelieveTroubleEffectsNegativeSickWorried Author:Maria Conchita Alonso
“I would like to find a way in which people in Saudi Arabia could learn that they can be something other than a Muslim. Some people may not realize this. Of course, there is the problem that you can get in trouble or get stoned.” PeopleWayMayProblemCoursesRealizingTroubleArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudis Author:Richard Dawkins
“People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.” PeopleLooksWonderTroubleExampleTheoryCopies Author:W. Edwards Deming
“They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.” PeopleMenMayHelpingDesireMistakeTroubleStatements Author:Napoleon Hill
“The elective franchise is withheld from one half of its citizens...because the word 'people,' by an unparalleled exhibition of lexicon graphical acrobatics, has been turned and twisted to mean all who were shrewd and wise enough to have themselves born boys instead of girls, or who took the trouble to be born white instead of black.” PeopleMeanHas BeensEnoughGirlBlackBornWhiteHalfBoysWiseTroubleCitizensTwistedExhibitionsOne HalfLexiconAcrobatics Author:Mary Church Terrell
“The media is in the business of finding exceptions to everyday life. Bad things are still the exception. That's good, because once bad things stop being news, we really are in trouble. If people forget that bad is the exception, they think they live in a horrible world. There is so much that works and is right and friendly and warm. But we take that for granted.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldStillsForgetTroubleMediaFindingsNewsEverydayWarmHorribleGrantedExceptionFriendlyBad ThingsEveryday Life Author:Tom Bodett
“If people are asking me for clubbing tips, then they're in real trouble. My clubbing tip is never go to a club, because they're horrible and I hate them. I'm more of a dinner party guy.” PeopleIfsRealGuyHatePartyTroubleI HateAskingClubsDinnerHorribleDinner Party Author:Simon Bird
“I think that's a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go? I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don't know how it shapes up exactly. I don't think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWritingImportantSometimesStoriesWaitingForgetRolesKnow HowTroubleShapesSittingDown AndNewspapersReportersReally GreatSitting AroundNewspaper ReportersShutting Down Author:Biz Stone
“I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people who grow really early and have to learn how to take care of themselves. They have trouble hinging their lives with anybody else.” PeopleThinkingSelfCareGrowsCasesWonderfulTroubleTake CareSelf RelianceExileRelianceUncommon Author:Leigh Newman
“And then, of course, Bush won reelection, with everything out there, all of our complaints, all of the issues, all of the troubles with Iraq. So where are we? Bush certainly sees himself as having been given an endorsement. He was asked about accountability in an interview, about why Rumsfeld, Rice, and Wolfowitz have been promoted, these people who led us into the debacle in Iraq. Bush said there was accountability - it was the election. So there we are.” PeopleHas BeensSaidCoursesGivenIssuesTroubleElectionIraqInterviewsAccountabilityComplaintsRiceEndorsementsReelectionDebacles Author:Seymour Hersh
“I definitely have friends who - they've gone to multiple jobs, they've had trouble finding jobs, some have gone back to school - it's a very transitional period in anyone's life. I think definitely people have, even like my girlfriend for example, she works her job - and just the fact that she has a job - she just feels super lucky in this economy. But it can really shape, I think, the way you view the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayFeelsFactsSchoolJobsViewsEconomyGoneTroubleExamplePeriodsShapesLuckyFindingsGirlfriendMultipleMy GirlfriendMultiple Jobs Author:Chris Baio
“However, there probably is a slight connection between the high-wire, super sensitivity, open to everything and too much, and slightly fragile soul of the artist and the need to self-medicate, which can lead to bad trouble either in drugs, or alcohol. So it's not that there's no connection, it's just that we can't make too much of it because it isn't the addiction that's the issue, it's the fragility of some people who do artistic work, who end up in rehab somewhere or other.” PeopleNeedsSoulEndsSelfArtistIssuesToo MuchTroubleDrugConnectionsAddictionAlcoholArtisticFragileSensitivityWireRehabFragility Author:Anne Roiphe
“It says in this world you will have trouble in John 16:33 but take heart you can have peace in me because I've overcome the world. I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ, through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldHeartHelpingChristCommunityChurchTroubleHonestyThis WorldOvercomingBelieverLocalsPursueHolinessBiblicalHelping PeopleTransparencyLocal Church Author:Alan Chambers
“I'm having so much trouble with writing. Maybe if I help other people, it'll be easier for me.” PeopleIfsWritingHelpingTroubleEasierHelping Others Author:Junot Diaz
“She writes that one of the moments that she felt most useful was when her mother had a headache, and she would stroke her head and rub her forehead. And I think Eleanor Roosevelt's entire life was dedicated to two things: (one) making it better for all people, people in trouble and in need, like her family.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWritingTwoMomentsMotherFeltTroubleTwo ThingsDedicatedStrokesForeheadsHeadacheLike HerEleanor Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“You see guys getting in trouble, but you also see the good in people. It's just a matter of always learning.” PeopleMatterGuyTroubleAlways Learning Author:Akeem Ayers
“Being a perfectionist, I didn't want to settle for just getting by, so I enrolled in a vocal training program. I then learned that songwriting and studying the voice actually pair with a lot of troubles that I had expressing myself, being vulnerable, trusting other people, trusting myself, calming anxiety. It became a life instructor of sorts and that is what kept me engaged with it.” PeopleWantVoiceStudyTroubleAnxietyTrainingProgramVulnerableSettlingEngagedPairsSongwritingVocalPerfectionistCalmingInstructorsTraining Programs Author:Alyson Stoner
“Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.” PeopleChildrenBodyParentTroubleHavensAddictionFinancialBlowDivorceDisasterFortyBankruptcyThis Society Author:Marianne Williamson
“I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.” PeopleThinkingWayWantLooksArtImportantDecisionAnswersForgetTroubleIndustryUniqueBeing Unique Author:Justin Vernon
“The whole importance of Iraq is that we have now created two things. One, Iraq is in the Arab heartland in terms of an attraction for people who want to fight the Americans and their allies. It's far greater than anything Afghanistan was aftertheSoviets invaded. It's easy to get to, there's no trouble with languages.” PeopleWantTwoWholeFightingLanguageEasyTermGreaterTroubleImportanceIraqAttractionTwo ThingsAlliesAfghanistanEasy To Get Author:Michael Scheuer
“The idea of somebody being a fan of something I can totally understand. The idea of being followed around by cameras or people taking pictures of you eating a hamburger, I kind of have trouble even imaging it.” PeopleKindI CanIdeasTroubleFansEatingCamerasHamburgersTaking PicturesImaging Author:Rachelle Lefevre
“So a lot of people who work rotating shifts and they work at night, their bodies are set to want to be awake during the day and sleep at night. So there are some people who have a lot of trouble adjusting their rhythms and they have trouble working the night shift, they're sleepy, they're drowsy driving home.” PeopleWantHomeBodyNightSleepTroubleDrivingRhythmAwakeSleepyAdjustingDrowsyNight ShiftRotatingDriving Home Author:Shelby Harris
“Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.” PeopleWellsAbleTroubleEvolutionAdultsPopulationMilk Author:Carl Zimmer
“I never get too many problems. You can never please everyone anyway, obviously. And some people take the easy route and just play the greatest hits, and their audience is happy to hear that as well, and that's fine, but it wouldn't please me. But it doesn't trouble me.” PeopleWellsPlayProblemEasyAudienceTroubleFinePleaseRoutesPlease MeEasy Route Author:Paul Weller
“The trouble is, most people are not so generous. Everybody wants love for themselves. I hear this all the time from the women I work with. I hear them say, "I want, I want." I never hear them saying what they want to give.” PeopleWantGivingTroubleGenerous Author:Miuccia Prada
“I think that people get into trouble when they photograph something that they... that is not in their world. It's like when they say "write what you know."” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWritingTroublePhotograph Author:Carol Friedman
“I think you can measure how pathetic your life is by how much joy you get from learning about other people's faults and troubles.” PeopleThinkingLife IsJoyLeadershipTroubleFaultsPathetic Author:Bradford Winters
“The workings of heaven are unfathomable-sometimes encouraging, sometimes suppressing. All this makes sport of heroes and tumbles the great. Enlightened people take adversity in stride and are prepared for trouble even when at ease; therefore, they are not at the mercy of fate.” PeopleSometimesHeavenSportsFateTroubleHeroMercyAdversityPreparedEaseEnlightenedTaoismStrideUnfathomableSuppressing Author:Zicheng Hong
“If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper. When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.” PeopleIfsMenWorldIndividualNationsWishCitiesLibertyTroubleEconomicLessonsEconomicsCustomersWelfareProvincesGeneral Welfare Author:Frederic Bastiat
“I love my people and I don't hate nobody and it keeps me out of trouble.” PeopleHateTroubleDon't Hate Author:Muhammad Ali
“In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I always tell people is when I acted early on as a teenager, it actually kept me out of trouble.” PeoplePersonsCharacterActingTroubleDirectorsTeenagerIrony Author:Juliette Lewis
“Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn very deeply into the area of their trouble. They want to know more than their doctor. That's a curious thing, and not at all the way it used to be.” PeopleKnowsWayWantUsedStudyTroubleMajorsAreasDoctorsPsychologicalUsed To BeCuriousSymptomsVery Deep Author:James Hillman
“People, you know, had trouble with the character. Mindy is not immediately likeable. She does and says a lot of things that you don't see in, forget female characters, any characters. Like, she says things like, "I'm going to hell because I don't really care about the environment and I love to gossip."” PeopleKnowsDoeCharacterCareForgetHellEnvironmentTroubleFemaleGossipFemale CharactersLikeable Author:Mindy Kaling
“I'm just happy that I'm able to take care of what I need to take care of, live, and do the thing that I love the most and that is to sing. People want to hear it, buy it, see it, hold it, record it, bootleg it. It's fine with me as long as it's good but when it's bad I'm in trouble!” PeopleWantNeedsLongCareAbleRecordsTroubleFineTake Care Author:Ledisi
“Personally, I never believe an artist saying "I do it for myself" is saying the truth, because why would you go through the trouble of making something that goes out into the world if you didn't care about somebody else seeing it? It's like the difference between those who choose "more comfortably termed entertainment" versus what people think of as the "art life," which is supposedly more monastic or spiritual. I don't believe in those distinctions.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldBelieveArtCareSpiritualArtistDifferencesSeeingTroubleTruth IsDon't BelieveEntertainmentDistinctionVersusSaying The TruthArt Life Author:Eric Fischl
“We understand what the difference is between what we understand and what the community understands about what we're doing because they have supported us long enough for me to stay out here, while other people who are doing other things have not. A lot of people have trouble pinning down what it is we do and how. But we don't have any trouble with that. As long as that's their problem, it's their problem.” PeopleLongEnoughProblemCommunityDifferencesTrouble Author:Gil Scott-Heron
“Whenever people have trouble public speaking, it's because they are just thinking about themselves.” PeopleThinkingTroublePublic Speaking Author:Tony Robbins
“I know the polling data shows people have a negative view but if you listen to everything out there, you think, my God. We're in such deep trouble. We created more jobs than every other industrial country in the world combined.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldCountryShowsJobsViewsTroubleNegativeDataPolling Author:Joe Biden
“If your program has a great leader, you'll get great things. If you don't have a great leader and people aren't on the same page, you have a lot of different people doing a lot of different things. That's where trouble starts.” PeopleIfsDifferentLeaderTroublePagesProgramGreat ThingsDifferent ThingsDifferent PeoplesGreat Leader Author:Deshaun Watson
“[The Ghost Team] is basically about people who have nothing to do, and so they do something really silly and stupid. It's about the nature of nothingness, how people deal with that, and how sometimes going down a rabbit hole of your beliefs can put you in some serious trouble. It can also free up a side of you that has been repressed. At the end of the film, they're all disappointed, but they're also jazzed that they got to know each other.” PeopleKnowsHas BeensEndsSometimesFilmBeliefSidesDealsTroubleTeamStupidSeriousSillyGhostHolesDisappointedNothingnessRabbitsRepressedRabbit Holes Author:David Krumholtz
“The trouble for most people is they don't decide to get wealthy, they just dream about it.” PeopleLifeDreamMotivationalMoneyTroubleWealthy Author:Mark M. Ford