People
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Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.
Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
You cannot go far alone. You enjoy your journey better if you have people by your side.
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
I don't tell many people my last name.
One thing about television, it brings out personality. People are able to watch me in action. They hear my voice and see my eyes. There's nothing I can hide. That's me. Television brings out your flaws, your weaknesses, your strengths, and you truths. The audience either likes you or it doesn't.
No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.
People look at me and look, but I do not care.
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot of opera during the war, but he converted a lot of people, myself included, in the process.
Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we have.
Capitalism does a number of things very well: it helps create an entrepreneurial spirit; it gets people motivated to come up with new ideas, and that's a good thing.
I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.