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People Quotes by Robert Breault

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Robert Breault observes that many people avoid fights and look for someone to give in instead. He notes that hidden wishes, like collecting cats, often mask deeper needs. His notes remind us to listen carefully, because ideas and misunderstandings surface when we pay attention.

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The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.

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Eventually you come to realize that most people aren't looking for a fight but for someone to surrender to.

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Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing.

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I don't know that there are haunted houses. I know that there are dark staircases and haunted people.

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In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal.

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Learn to listen. It's amazing the ideas that pop into your head while people are saying them into your ear.

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No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.

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It is sad when two people turn from the paths they’re traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.

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More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.

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It's sad when two people who could never part without a kiss come to the point where they never part and so…

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The thing about a friendly smile is not just that it makes people like you but that it makes them like themselves.

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The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you're anti-social when you're only anti-networking.

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Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged…

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There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have…

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It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person.

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Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two…

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A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

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Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile.

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The road to success is wherever people need another road.

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I don't think most people want to be unhappy. It's just something they've gotten good at.

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Most people would rather defend to the death your right to say it than listen to it.

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I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers.

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Always when judging Who people are, Remember to footnote The words "So far.

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People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

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We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.

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Eventually you realize that not all opposing viewpoints come from people who oppose you.

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A commuter tie-up consists of you — and people who for some reason won't use public transit.

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People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics.

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If you allow people to treat you like a doormat, they will expect you to say WELCOME.

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I don't hate anyone. The only people I know well enough to hate, I love.

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One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.

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What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying.

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A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.

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The wedding is where two people become one. The marriage is where they decide which one.

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The trouble with having a body is that people know it's where you hang out and you don't get any privacy.

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You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.

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Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.

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Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance…

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It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they…

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While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their…

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You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet…

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.

Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.

I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me.

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.

The trick to getting ahead is to give it the same effort you give to getting even.

Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a…

To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.

For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.

As a means to success, determination has this advantage over talent - that it does not have to be recognized by others.

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us.