John Steinbeck Quotes

Addicts sometimes have a penchant for becoming the center of attention at other people's celebrations.

If you have to talk to more than three people about the same problem, you don't want help, you want attention.

Surely he knows we are all watching. That I am watching. It is always that way when you are in a group and someone decides to go for a swim or walk to the water. The ocean is a giant stage. It is natural that the others watch, if only for a moment.

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

Just us as people, we're different around different people and in different environments.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

People are getting attention for doing nothing, for behaving poorly, for abusing themselves in public and being abused, exploiting themselves. I find it vulgar and I find it awful.

Small children and unruly people who are demanding attention.

People who seek attention, need all the help they can get.

If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.

No one hid their interest when I walked into the room. I'm not sure if it was the news about Boo or my general appearance. At home, people would have asked. People would have been crawling all over me for information. At Wexford, they seemed to extract what they wanted to know by covert staring.

preety girls behave best when you ignore them

Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.

I think people start rumors because it creates interest and it makes people look at things and become more interested in what they're looking at.

In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity, represented by a bunch of good people, pitted against an evil-producing situation. The question is, does the goodness of the people overwhelm the bad situation, or does the bad situation overwhelm the good people?

People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

People are only mean when they are threatened.

My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers.

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something.

I think this is something that is naturally built in in people, a need for attention and a need to be special and we are always trying to find a balance.

Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice; various freeloading insects have evolved a mellifluous existence because of this very fact. Humans act the same way.

What people are perceiving will dictate what their life and ultimately what your interaction is.