People Quotes

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

~ Anne Sullivan

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

~ George Allen

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Successful people breed success.

~ Phil Crosby

Other people's success spurs me on to do well and gives me motivation.

~ Nicholas Hoult

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

~ Mikhail Lermontov

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

~ Ben Bernanke

My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

~ Jada Pinkett Smith

I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.

~ Aaron Paul

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task.

~ George Soros

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.

~ Randy Bachman

People fall forward to success.

~ Mary Kay Ash

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

~ James Daly

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

~ Keith Henson

My success is not due to any personal superiority over other people.

~ John Philip Sousa

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

~ Allen Ginsberg

Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.

~ Sarah Kay

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

~ Wallace Stevens

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

~ Vanessa Redgrave

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

~ Sherman Alexie

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

~ Lucille Clifton

Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing our minds and taking care of that clutter. It's being able to let in call letters from the poetry universe.

~ Juan Felipe Herrera

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

~ Margaret Walker

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.

~ Peter Porter

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

~ June Jordan

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.

~ Azar Nafisi

I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.

~ Bindi Irwin

Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.

~ Billy Collins

I know my voice has a limited range of motion; I don't write dramatic monologues and pretend to be other people. But so far, my voice is broad enough to accommodate most of what I want to put into my poetry. I like my persona; I often wish I were him and not me.

~ Billy Collins

What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

~ Patti Smith

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

~ Patti Smith

People who buy 'The National Enquirer' would buy poetry. They should be given a choice. I'm absolutely serious.

~ Joseph Brodsky

People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.

~ Helen Fisher

I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.

~ Laura Dern

There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.

~ Dave Grohl

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.

~ David Mamet

Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.

~ Julian Baggini

It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too.

~ Sean Bean