Truth be told, I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.
~ Richard Russo
I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people just kind of... own everything. There was a lot of stuff a couple of years ago saying that I was bullied at Brown and awful things like that, none of which were true.
~ Emma Watson
Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?' But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully.
~ Will Self
It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!
~ Anne Sullivan
If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.
~ Roger Ebert
I want to experience that massive adrenalin rush when you step into a new stadium, all the more so when that Olympic Stadium is packed full of people waving British flags.
~ Jessica Ennis
There's no experience like going down an empty freeway toward a hurricane and then looking in the opposite lane and seeing bumper-to-bumper traffic, people fleeing that scene. Or going to a toxic spill and seeing people go the other way. You talk yourself into thinking you're invincible in order to do that.
~ Lester Holt
If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.
~ Bo Bennett
I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.
~ Harrison Ford
The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, coaches and opponents, the travel, all of it, are far more than anything I ever thought possible in my lifetime.
~ Curt Schilling
How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.
~ Keanu Reeves
I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.
~ Jennifer Jason Leigh
The day I decided I didn't want to be a 19th-Century European curator, I knew I would never have the experience of people coming and going 'ooh' and 'aah,' the way they do around the Monets. It just doesn't happen.
~ Thelma Golden
I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult.
~ Joss Whedon
More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.
~ Vivienne Westwood
All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.
~ Sonia Sotomayor
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
As entrepreneurs, we often get pressured into hiring an industry executive. While it's good to hire people with experience, it can also be a stumbling block because they think about the business the same way everyone else does.
~ Blake Mycoskie
I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.
~ Anatoli Boukreev
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
~ Thomas Lynch
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
~ Randolph Bourne
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
~ John F. Kennedy
We are becoming so fickle and self involved. Always looking for the next best thing - especially when it comes to people. We spend hours buried in our phones trying to keep up with the social lives of people we may not even know. Envy and the fear of missing out have taken over. Yet we are all still longing for human connection.
~ Whitney Wolfe
Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.
~ Andrew Stanton
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
~ Noam Chomsky
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
~ Dan Millman
People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
~ Frank Ocean
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
~ Marianne Williamson
A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.
~ Chris Hadfield
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
~ Pearl S. Buck
People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.
~ Mel Gibson
I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
~ Haley Joel Osment
Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.
~ Gouverneur Morris
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
~ Hermann Hesse
People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not being nice, the fear of appearing ignorant, the fear of a perceived authority figure - all these are triggers, which can be used by a social engineer to convince a person to override established security procedures.
~ Kevin Mitnick
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
~ Bell Hooks
For me, every single thing I do seems to be about the process of letting go because that's what I so desperately need to do with so many things: with fear, with what people think of me, and all these things I've worried about my whole life.
~ John Grant
Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.
~ Susan Cain
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
~ Napoléon Bonaparte
I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.
~ Jonny Wilkinson
