The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important – and then get out of their way while they do it. – Jack Welch
When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving? – Jackie Speier
People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you’ll never see the headlines say, ‘Six billion people got along rather well today.’ You’ll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other. – John Malkovich
I have been in rooms with people arguing over a character that’s not really fleshed out: that, just because the surname is Latino, that automatically means you have an accent. – Jimmy Smits
I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start. – John Lee Hooker
People ask what are my intentions with my films – my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct. – Ingmar Bergman
You don’t really see ugly people that are old, or a bit grotty and smelly, in the media. If a Martian came down, they would think we were all tall, thin, attractive and wealthy. – Jo Brand
I suppose that few people ever forget the first sight of a palm-tree of any species. I vividly remember seeing one for the first time at Malaga, but the coco-palm groves of the Pacific have a strangeness and witchery of their own. – Isabella Bird
Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don’t, then I must be doing something wrong. – Jon Kabat-Zinn
What does homophobia look like when it’s stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who’ve died fighting for our country. – Jane Velez-Mitchell
That’s the philosophy that we have always had. Going and playing in front of people and leaving an impressive from that standpoint. – Josh Dun
We need an attorney general for the people, not a presidential protector and puppet of the administration. – John Barrasso
I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody’s different – I don’t know how that works. – James Gray
It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times. – Jeff Bezos
The most fascinating part is how fashion just attracts all these social rejects, if you will, from around the world, encourages individuality. They’re the people who make the industry tick. – Imran Amed
A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions – leaving everything behind, crossing the trackless wastes, and in those stories the people who stayed behind and had their settled ways – those people were not the people who got the prize. The prize was California. – Joan Didion
I deal with the authors I work with, agents, and other departments of the company, talking about both the books that I’m working on and everyone else’s. Then there’s dealing with foreign publishers: foreigners visit all the time. People want to bounce things off the publisher, and a lot of it is encouragement. – Jonathan Galassi
I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world. – Jeannette Walls
People call me a perfectionist, but I’m not. I’m a rightist. I do something until it’s right, and then I move on to the next thing. – James Cameron
My sound comes from my inspiration, which is people like Aretha and Jay Z and Kanye, as well as everyone from the Whitneys and Mariahs to Destiny’s Child and Usher. They all inspired me growing up. – Jess Glynne
When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier. – Iqbal Quadir
I don’t like the idea that fame could mean that people can no longer relate to me. – Jessica Chastain
If nobody has really done a show about people in their twenties that has been successful, why? – Jason Katims
I think it’s absolutely essential that the people that work for a company need to feel that they’re part of something bigger – that it’s not just a job. – John Mackey
