Other People's Problems Quotes:

I'd rather have happiness than money.

- Brenda Fassie

topic: Other People's Problems

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Job Growth, Inner Life

Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.

- Margaret Thatcher

topic: Running, Government, People, Socialist Government, Spending Other People's Money

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

- Margaret Thatcher

topic: Running, Freedom, Government, Spending Other People's Money, Iron Lady

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

- Nan Fairbrother

source: Nan Fairbrother (1965). “The House”

topic: Happiness, Giving, People, Other People's Problems

Don't get bogged down by life and other people's problems or hang ups.

- Angela Merkel

topic: Women, People, Problem, Other People's Problems, Hang Ups

When a friend needs consoling, do not give in to the temptation of telling stories similar to theirs of disaster or bereavement. It is something people often do to show empathy but nothing is more tiresome than other people's problems when you want to focus on your own. Listening is by far the best form of consolation.

- Giles Andreae

topic: Grief, Giving, People, Other People's Problems, Tiresome

I hate to admit this, but some days hearing about other people's problems actually cheers me up.

- Susan Elizabeth Phillips

topic: Cheer, Hate, People, Other People's Problems, Cheer Me Up

I'm someone who doesn't believe in making my problems other people's problems.

- Tom Cruise

topic: Believe, People, Problem, Other People's Problems

If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

- Corey Feldman

topic: People, Needs, Problem, Other People's Problems

When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

- Suzanne Massie

source: Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”

topic: People, Effort, Frustrated, Other People's Problems

Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your own, for with your own you can at least do what you think best, but other people always show such a persistent tendency to do the wrong thing.

- Marion Milner

source: Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.154, Taylor & Francis

topic: Thinking, People, Worry, Busybodies, Other People's Problems

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

- Charles Handy

topic: Helping Others, People, Want, Other People's Problems, Consultants

…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.

- John Green

source: John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.36, Penguin

topic: People, Problem, Stealing, Other People's Problems

Nothing helps us build our perspective more than developing compassion for others. Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to put yourself in someone else's shoes, to take the focus off yourself and to imagine what it's like to be in someone else's predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own-often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our own hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.

- Richard Carlson

source: Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

topic: Gratitude, Pain, Real, Other People's Problems, Compassion For Others

It's probably the last thing you think about when you're making a film is other people's problems. You're thinking about your problem, which is making the movie. But you do have a responsibility. You can't mess around with people's emotions.

- Conor McPherson

source: "Interview: Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of ‘The Eclipse’". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.com. Posted on.

topic: Responsibility, Thinking About You, People, Other People's Problems