People
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
I've always loved the idea of not being what people expect me to be.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better — because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.
I think people understand that if you're going to have a successful economy, you need people's potential to be realized. That means education. It means university education, sure, but it also means training, apprenticeships and various kinds of skills diplomas that we know are necessary.
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When our minds are sick, people tend to shy away from you, be afraid, or call you outright crazy. I'm fascinated by the way society and individuals view mental illness, and most of my shorts comment on that.
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.
All of my favorite people — people I really trust — none of them were cool in their younger years.
When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Having been in the restaurant business, our job in the restaurant business is to be responsible for our customers' happiness. It's the nature of the hospitality business. You need to take care of people. You take care of customers above all others. Customers are your lifeblood.
Money is a very important tool to make a big difference in people's life. It is positive or negative depending on the values.
Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery — people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.
I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.
Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland, I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.
