“Many people need desperately to receive this message: "I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don't care about them. You are not alone."”

— Kurt Vonnegut , book Timequake

Timequake (1997)

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American writer 1922–2007

Diane Chamberlain (1950) American writer

Source: The Silent Sister

“As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“I don't care what people think about me, I care what they think about themselves.”

Lady Gaga (1986) American singer, songwriter, and actress

FUSE Lady Gaga: On The Record (Part 1) HQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiYM-OzG6yw

“I don't care what people say about me and what they think about me. I care about my team and I care about myself. Lots of people watch hockey, and I think everybody has different thinking.”

Alexander Ovechkin (1985) Russian ice hockey player

John Vogl (December 27, 2006) "No standing ovation for Ovechkin", The Buffalo News, p. D4.

“If you don’t care about my people, why should I care about yours?”

Octavia E. Butler book Adulthood Rites

Part II “Phoenix” chapter 15 (p. 383)
Adulthood Rites (1988)

“I don't care what they think of me,
And I don't care what they say.
I don't care what they think if you're leavin'.
I'm gonna beg you to stay.
I don't care if they start to avoid me.
I don't care what they do.
I don't care about anything else
But bein' with you,
Bein' with you.”

Smokey Robinson (1940) American R&B singer-songwriter and record producer

Being with You (1981)
Song lyrics, Solo

“To people off alone, as we were, there is something stirring about finding evidences of human labour and care in the soil of an empty country. It comes to you as a sort of message, makes you feel differently about the ground you walk over every day.”

Willa Cather book The Professor's House

Book II, Ch. 2
The Professor's House (1925)

“People need to feel that someone cares about them; that someone is listening to their ideas. The return on investment of a ‘thank you’ is infinite because it costs nothing—but what matters most to people are time and attention.”

Don Soderquist (1934–2016)

Don Soderquist “ The Wal-Mart Way: The Inside Story of the Success of the World's Largest Company https://books.google.com/books?id=mIxwVLXdyjQC&lpg=PR9&dq=Don%20Soderquist&pg=PR9#v=onepage&q=Don%20Soderquist&f=false, Thomas Nelson, April 2005, p. 57.
On Listening

“All white people who are voting DA, who are angry with what we are going to do in PE, who have insulted us since we announced this decision, and mobilised some of your people in the media, to insult us and say all of this, all of you combined can go to hell! We don't care about you. We don't care about you. We don’t care about White feelings.”

Julius Malema (1981) South African political activist

On 4 March 2018, at the launch of the EFF's election registration campaign, Standard Bank arena, Johannesburg. Has EFF’s Julius Malema Gone Too Far With Racist Remarks? https://www.sapeople.com/2018/03/05/has-effs-julius-malema-gone-too-far-with-racist-remarks/, SAPeople News (5 March 2018)

“If you care about what people think you'll never live.”

Lil Wayne (1982) American rapper, singer, record executive and businessman

This quotation is commonly attributed to Carter, but actually appeared on social networking websites, with no clear author.
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“Many people need desperately to receive this message: "I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don't care about them. You are not alone."”

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