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People Around You Quotes

Your behavior is the sum total of your action and reaction to issues and people around you.
- Jaachynma N E Agu

Love changes you and people around you.
- Primadonna Angela

I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong.
- Carmelo Anthony

To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang.
- Adam Arkin

One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.
- Charles Barkley

That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.
- Haruki Murakami

People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.
- Ray Bradbury

You can't have 'yes' people around you.
- Terry Bradshaw

You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you.
- Toni Braxton

Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet.
- Chris Brown

When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.
- Nicholas Sparks

My dad always said that when you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just hard as what you're going through
- Nicholas Sparks

I'd come to see that home wasn't just about the place where you lived or the memories within the walls. It was the love you saw reflected in the eyes of the people around you, and the strength of your own feelings that made a place home.
- R E Butler

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Tony Robbins

If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.
- Dave Chappelle

One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.
- Dave Chappelle

The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.
- Dave Chappelle

Some people around you don't mean you good.
- Trick Daddy

I enjoy getting things done. My philosophy is the edge, the edge of something. There's where we have to go in local government, in not only the philosophy but the creativity in people around you. They have to go to the edge.
- Richard M Daley

When you travel with your family, you may not get the volume of work done you would if you were alone, but you can still do something while recharging. If nothing else, you can gather your own thoughts, write down ideas, observe people around you, and reflect on experiences. Working doesn't always mean putting words on paper.
- Barbara Demarco Barrett

It's your body and you're going to have a much better life, you are going to have a quality life, better lifestyle, you're going to be healthier, you're going to be happier, you're going to enjoy the people around you and they're going to enjoy you more.
- Mike Ditka

All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.
- W Paul Young

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.
- Eliza Dushku

It's hard to be scared when there are 80 people around you.
- Clea Duvall

...But friends, those I wanted to please? There are so few, so few... and you're one of them. You... because you have such a gift for life. You grab hold of it with both hands. You move, you dance, you know how to make the rain and the sunshine in a home. You have this incredible gift for making people around you happy. You're so at ease, so at ease on this little planet..
- Anna Gavalda

The key is for you to discover what you love to do, what you were created to do, and then do it for the people around you with love. That is the abundant life, dear girl, no matter where in the world you live.
- Robin Jones Gunn

Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and the speakers around you - the speakers around you - and the communicators around you, are the poetry makers.
If your mother tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.
If your father says stories, he is a poetry maker.
If your grandma tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.
And that's who forms our poetics.
- Juan Felipe Herrera

Great things may not change the world, but they will change the people around you
- Leanna Renee Hieber

You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then?
- Nick Hornby

I will not let a political party tell me how to live, when to die or what to believe in. Our souls are linked to the universe, but we can never see heaven, because our flesh ties us to the earth and the people around us. But when the people around you have lost their will to be free, then earth becomes a hell.
- Ma Jian

...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
- Anne Lamott

Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves, and lure real birds down from the sky. Here you must endure real people around you, and we are not uniformly kind; we are damaged and impulsive, each in our own way. It is harder. It is not safe. But it is what you were born to.
- Margo Lanagan

Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.
- Sergei Lukyanenko

When you're a very ambitious person, the things that are disappointing are when other people around you aren't as enthusiastic.
- Reba Mcentire

Don't take life too seriously, there will always be plenty of people around you to do it in your stead.
- Jeffrey Michael

It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.
- Lauren Oliver

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
- Tom Peters

I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.
- John Prescott

Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you'll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you'll be tempted to say to the people around you, how can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?
- Daniel Quinn

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.
- Sam Raimi

When you're more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
- Sheryl Sandberg

Early on I realized that I had to hire people smarter and ore qualified than I was in a number of different fields, and I had to let go of a lot of decision-making. I can't tell you how hard that is. But if you've imprinted your values on the people around you, you can dare to trust them to make the right moves.
- Howard Schultz

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.
- David Sedaris

If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
- Wanda Sykes

we had each other. I never needed anyone else. That's the difference between you and me. You need all these people around you. Your friends, your boyfriend, everyone. Every single person has to like you. I only ever needed one person. Only ever needed you.
- Sara Zarr

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