People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.
Neil Kinnock
Related The American people are free to do exactly what they are told. WARD CHURCHILL Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told.... SETH GODIN People believe what they are told. JACQUELINE CAREY Revolutions arise from obstinacy. People are dissatisfied with what they are told and they develop n... DIRK KURBJUWEIT You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY There are two kinds of people: those who don’t do what they are told, and those who do only that. VIKRANT PARSAI People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see. ERIN MORGENSTERN They have to know they can ask for it if they want it or need it. People weren't being told about wh... LOIS KANTER It's hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can ... TOM DOUGLAS Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderf... RICK RIORDAN I wonder how harmless such people are? To what extent civilization is retarded by the laughing jacka... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart. BERTOLT BRECHT All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't. MARILYN MONROE There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and ... CYRUS CURTIS What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly. JONATHAN SWIFT What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly JONATHAN SWIFT People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are ent... GARY WEISS Don’t fight with narrow minded people; be determined to compel them to change their mindsets about... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Cops aren't really your friends, they are trying to be your friends but they are not.... DEYTH BANGER Broad minded people dream bigger, they are very keen to meet others and share their dreams. It doesn... EUGINIA HERLIHY People are used to dealing with risk. You are told if you smoke, you are at higher risk of lung canc... ANNE WOJCICKI I think it's important that people know what they are eating and especially to know what their c... ERIC SCHLOSSER [The city told him it was not their responsibility] even though it's their property, ... They said, ... MICHAEL JORDAN People usually believe anything that they are told early and often. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independent... JOSE PADILHA The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers ... MARC ANDREESSEN I'm in three videos that have six nominations, ... But I was just a tool. The [videos] that got the ... ERIC ROBERTS When people are told, Well, if you do all that, if you work hard and succeed, and 55 percent of what... BILL BEACH I've told them that this is their last year, and if they want to get in the playoffs, they are going... EDGEY ARBUCKLE People with a scientific mindset are analytical, open-minded, flexible and have the capacity to answ... ERALDO BANOVAC People respond better when they are asked rather than told. Don't you? JEFFREY BENJAMIN People from the area have told me that they are pleased to see the pupils wearing uniform and it mak... EWAN AITKEN I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they d... SHIRLEY MANSON Most survivors are cope-aholics, people who cope with whatever is thrown at them without reliance on... RENEE FREDRICKSON Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they... BJORN LOMBORG See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They're taking in every single thing you... JOEL OSTEEN Saints are ordinary people who do what they do for the love of Jesus, say what they must say without... MOTHER ANGELICA Many people are daydreamers i.e. they are absent-minded and so waste a lot of their time SUNDAY ADELAJA Nobody has changed their stories from what they told The Times. EDDIE HILL If people support independently owned small businesses in their community, they can make a differenc... KENNETH CHENAULT Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothe... ANTONIN ARTAUD It wasn't exactly uplifting, ... but it was a story told within a context in which people had someth... ELIZABETH FULLER [The elders] yelled at us, told us we were traitors, enemies of the people. They told me I was a sco... JUMADURDY OVEZOV Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills o... SIR HUGH WALPOLE Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills o... HORACE WALPOLE Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills ... HORACE WALPOLE When I was a small boy I was always being told by others, especially grown ups, to behave, to be goo... SIDNEY MADWED If people are opening their hearts to do what they can, it's got to be greatly appreciated. BARBARA ALLEN And what do they want!? DEYTH BANGER Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, ... LOUIS CAMUTI The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad t... WINSTON CHURCHILL The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad t... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad t... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Some people are like a thermometer. If their environment is negative, they are negative. If bad thin... CAMERON C. TAYLOR In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their ... SIMON HOGGART I have noticed that people that say they are open minded often have their eyes shut! VALENE SMITH The American people need to be told what could have been done to prevent 3,000 people from losing th... CURT WELDON The recruiters came and talked with us in school, and I remember it like yesterday. I wasn't interes... STEPHEN DAU My parents always told me, 'Do what you love because that is what you will do well in.' They... DYLAN LAUREN The American people have seen so much damage they are saturated. There may not have been much incent... CHARLES GIBSON By and large the people we see coming here are coming because they can't feed their families and the... JOAN HARPER Just their spirits and who they are is a very important part of this place, ... not to mention being... BETSY BRADLEY I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they... JOHN BERCOW People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves. PAULO COELHO What I think is great style advice that people have told me is that people who are confident look be... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN There are people in whole parts of our cities who are being totally left behind and disregarded. The... MARTIN O'MALLEY If someone is told from the time they are a child that they can't learn or they are stupid, it's a s... DEBRA CONNER Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they ca... ZIG ZIGLAR Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. JANE AUSTEN Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way JANE AUSTEN Several people told us they wanted the (alligator) caught because they were afraid to let their dogs... DAVID SELBY I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it. CAITLIN DOUGHTY Most parents want to know what they can do to make their children do as they're told, ALFIE KOHN I told them that anything they do for their brothers and sisters is good if they do it with a good t... CHARLES MANSON What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing... JOHN BRUNNER Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES I caution people in these categories if they are contacted, they should not reveal biographical or p... DON HALE As people came by he would ask people if they wanted to buy some fruit, ... He told them he had some... GEORGE LAWSON As people came by he would ask people if they wanted to buy some fruit, ... He told them he had some... GEORGE LAWSON Their size got to us. But we've beaten teams people told us we had no chance to beat before. Even to... KOLLYN MCWHINNEY Why do some people feel the need to throw a person's errors or weaknesses in their face or criticize... SUSAN C. YOUNG If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going ... RICKY SCHRODER To my understanding, it takes many years to have success. From what I have been told, many people re... BRIAN ITEN The only reason I'm calling for a rate hike is because that's what they told us they are going to do... DAVID ROSENBERG Some people really need to watch what they say & do because it may be hurting their own selves more ... NICNICLOUISIANA In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it wo... MARION BAILEY People who think they know it all, are especially annoying to those of us who do! DAVID SMITH When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except ... ECKHART TOLLE When I jump into something, I really do it to the fullest extent that my time and energy will allow ... MEHCAD BROOKS When they told people to evacuate at the Superdome, as they came in why didn't they start taking the... KIMBERLY SMITH I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops... ICE T Don't respect people after they told you:
Their job title
Their position, etc.
Just respect everyone... GOLDEN MASHEGO Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the n... WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT I often wonder what drives people to do things. Whether it's put into their minds at birth, or if it... JESSICA SORENSEN What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People forget that they have to create thei... SUNDAY ADELAJA Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. T... WARREN G. BENNIS People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies ... THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY We tend to go on loving the things the people who loved us loved. They are invested with soul, even ... ROBERT GOOLRICK One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world hav... HARUKI MURAKAMI
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