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When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about.

Harry Stack Sullivan

People

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!

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

Anne Sullivan

Success

People

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

Andrew Sullivan

People

Being

Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.

I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me.

Theodore Sturgeon

People

Saying

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

You must write to the people's expertise.

Theodore Sturgeon

People

Expertise

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it.

Theodore Sturgeon

People

Want

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

Theodore Sturgeon

People

When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.

I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up with a concept for a late-night restaurant for people in Birmingham.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.