People
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People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
I would say that nobody is going to work harder for your career than yourself — the one with the vision. No matter how many people you hire, nobody is going to get is as much as yourself does. So it's really important to be your own leader at all times and not hand it all off, otherwise the whole empire will fall apart.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Your self-esteem won't come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look for another reflection, like the one in the eyes of the people who love you and admire you.
I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.
Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.
As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.
Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos.
I'm always shocked when I get an invitation. People are always shocked when they see me at a party.
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
You look at my audience, and it proves what Congress thinks America is, is wrong. I get people across the political spectrum. Parents and kids come and they're all punked out, and there are these other guys in John Deere caps.
Of course I want the things I write to reflect well on me or anyone who might feel represented by me, but also, I'm not writing a guidebook on how to be or how my people should be seen. I'm telling very specific stories.
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
From the day of the Declaration, the people of the North American union, and of its constituent states, were associated bodies of civilized men and Christians, in a state of nature, but not of anarchy.
Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life?
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.