Quotes about lot (4519 quotes, page 46)

“[I]f it's just you, attempting to come up with a "good idea" before defining your purpose, creating a vision, and collecting lots of bad ideas is likely to give you a case of creative constipation.”

David Allen book Getting Things Done

Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001), Ch. 3

Idea

“It exposed, I thought, a lot of aspects of this society we have which are not terribly positive — toxic masculinity, victim culture. Liberal hypocrisy, I think, was the big loser.”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

Toxic Femininity (2022)

Thinking

“I have seen a lot of films, but no Western filmmaker has ever had a great impact or influence on me. We always feel there is a great gap between Chinese films and Western films. Western films are far more advanced, but we don’t feel any shock about this gap. It seems natural.”

Zhang Yimou (1950) Chinese actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer

"Zhang Yimou by Lawrence Chua" in BOMB Magazine https://bombmagazine.org/articles/zhang-yimou/ (1 April 1991)

Nature , Feeling

“You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.”

Vladimir Putin (1952) President of Russia, former Prime Minister

"Putin’s War of Words" https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/05/world/europe/vladimir-putin-war-of-words.html, New York Times, 5 December 2022
2010s, 2014

“At the beginning, I thought I was an ordinary athlete, and I didn't think too much about it. But as people asked me for a lot of things, I also felt that I should pay attention to my words and deeds. No longer. Can't let my temper anymore.”

Zhang Yufei (1998) Chinese swimmer

"Forced to open! Zhang Yufei: At the beginning of the National Games, I only signed up for 6 items, but the coach secretly added 2 items" in 163.com https://www.163.com/dy/article/GK9TP0F60529ETIH.html (19 September 2021)

People , Thinking

“If we consider women whose lot it is to inspire deep affection, we shall sometimes find them, not those who can most generously bestow, but those who can most generously receive.”

Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) British writer

Source: Don John (1881), Ch. 6, p. 74.

Women

“A job’s about a lot more than a paycheck, it’s about your dignity, it’s about place in the community.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

What these guys do is they care about the dignity of the worker, and I see things are really beginning to change. I really believe it. And Senator Portman, since he's not running again, I can say all the nice things about him that I want.
2022, May 2022, President Biden Delivers Remarks on Building a Better America

Communication

“REMEMBER OLD TIM QUILL

In the moneylenders’ offices
The clocks are standing still
As leading the workers here in Cork
Is our old man Tim Quill

Known for his eloquent oration
When he heads the Cork Trades Council
He devises every selfless action
For the welfare of the nation

In ’22 democracy
Was promised to us all
Yet if it wasn’t for the Co-op
That dream it would just fall

Some say his Friesian herd
Is the most prolific of the lot
Yet the needs of the most desperate
Quill has not forgot

Under the present order
We’re left with debt and slums
Until then we follow Timothy Quill
And his marchers’ fine ol’ drums”

Sean O'Connor

Primary source
Source: Scrap print from Irish Labour history group

Democracy , Dreams

“When you meet people, no matter what opinion you might have formed about them beforehand, why, after you meet them and see their angle and their personality, why, you can see a lot of good in all of them.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

On Leon Trotsky Saturday Evening Post (6 November 1926) - note that Rogers specifically spelled the word "dident"
Context: I bet you if I had met him and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I dident like. When you meet people, no matter what opinion you might have formed about them beforehand, why, after you meet them and see their angle and their personality, why, you can see a lot of good in all of them.

Personality , People