Quotes and Sayings About People
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Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces for the creation of psychopathology, even if these be small forces. Let them recognize that every person who is kind, helpful, decent, psychologically democratic, affectionate, and warm, is a psychotheraputic force, even though a small one.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
-- Abraham Maslow -
There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
-- Abraham Maslow -
It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?
-- Abraham Maslow -
The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.
-- Abraham Maslow -
One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.
-- Abraham Pais -
Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.
-- Abraham Polonsky -
The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
-- Abraham Verghese -
I was taking care of people my age who were dying. The constant feeling, hearing from them, was that life is transient and can end very quickly, so don't postpone your dreams.
-- Abraham Verghese -
I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
-- Abraham Verghese -
But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.
-- Abu Abbas -
All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.
-- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi -
But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
-- Abu Bakar Bashir -
If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
-- Abu Bakr -
If you want to control other people, first control yourself.
-- Abu Bakr -
You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.
-- Abu Bakr -
There is no doubt that the Americans losses are very heavy because they are deployed across a wide area and among the people and because it is easy to procure weapons. All of which makes them easy and mouth watering targets for the believers.
-- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -
By He in whose Hand is my soul, I have lived amongst people who never ordered food to be prepared for themselves If [food] was presented to one of them, he would eat, otherwise, he would be silent; and he would not care if it was hot or cold.
-- Abu Nu`aym -
On the Day of Judgment, the servant of Allah will be given his book of deeds, where he finds rewards for things he did not do, so he asks: O My Lord, where did I get these deeds? So Allah replies to him saying: These are because of the people who backbited you and you did not know about it.
-- Abu Umamah al Bahili -
The best of the people are the first to greet others.
-- Abu Umamah al Bahili -
For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
-- Ace Frehley -
I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.
-- Ace Frehley -
People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.
-- Ace Frehley -
I never set my sights low. I've always believed most people are ruined by the limitations they put on themselves. I was never afraid to take that step, to see what I was capable of doing. Does luck play a role in success, particularly in a creative field? Sure it does. But if you don't have the balls to give it a shot, you're destined to fail.
-- Ace Frehley -
I take pride in my music, I feel like it actually does something for people personally, in their personal lives, so it's real music and it helps people get through things like I was able to get through things.
-- Ace Hood
