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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey
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A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
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Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou
People that seem so glorious are all show;
underneath they are like everyone else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are injured and hurt emotionally,
not so much by other people
or what they say and don't say,
but by our own attitude and our own response.
- Maxwell Maltz
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
People don't care how much you know
until they know how much they care.
- John C. Maxwell
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
I'm actually starting to like more and more people
who have convictions that are unpopular.
-Bono
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby
Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
Nothing other people do is because of you.
It is because of themselves
- don Miguel Ruiz
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho
Inspire people to do things for themselves.
Inspire people to think for themselves.
- Bono
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
Tough times never last but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)
People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability.
One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
- Stephen Hawking
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west;
people create distinctions out of their own minds
and then believe them to be true.
- The Buddha
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln (sometimes attributed to P. T. Barnum)
Important ideas can come from unexpected places.
We tend to label people - Genius, Idiot,
Socialist, Regressive, Wingnut, Revolutionary, Terrorist.
But it is helpful to remind ourselves to be open
to good ideas - whatever their source.
It is equally important to avoid accepting any idea
merely because we respect that person's
other ideas or accomplishments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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