Kenneth Kaunda Quotes

American culture is very good at interpersonal relationships and people skills, whereas we're incredibly adept at academics and straightforward 19th-century Victorian education.

It always depends on who you work with. It is not about the budget, not about the countries but about people.

You have to learn how to care about people without taking on all of their problems.

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

People everywhere talk about Islam and the West. Presumably that has some relationship to reality, that these are entities that have some meaning and they do. Of course the core ofthat reality is differences in religion.

I've never really had a problem with people.

I'm someone who doesn't believe in making my problems other people's problems.

You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.

Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We - the American people - we are the solution.

In India people can't stomach this attitude of mine, and when I say, 'Hurry up, let's get to the point,' they feel hurt.

Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other

The great achievement of Western culture since the Enlightenment is to make many of us peer over the wall and grant some respect to people outside it; the great failure of Western Culture is to deny that walls are inevitable or important.

You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims.

The problem is these politicians have very, very big interests in being re-elected, and the money that gets them there is provided by people who don't necessarily have the interest of the public in mind.

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It doesn't teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things.

I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people "participate.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.

The grievance industry always seeks to blame other people while never finding a solution. That's my problem with it, when solutions are there to be had.

Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.

the relationship between people knot so easily, there needs to be a person skilled at working free the threads. Sometimes, though, the only way to extricate a tangle is to cut it out and start fresh.

The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better

One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.