As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

America’s promises do not come with a price tag. We meet our commitments. We bear our burdens. That’s one of the reasons why almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.

I’ve written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

I respect Soulja Boy.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

The point about melody and beat and lyric is that they exist to engage you in a very particular way. They want to occupy your attention.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely – the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears – when you give your whole attention to it.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you’re listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

I’ve had some ‚riotous excursions of the human spirit‘ alongside the young Sailors and Marines, and it’s time to leave the stage to the young leaders who got their rank the old-fashioned way – they earned their stripes in combat.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it’s humorous, all the attention to it, because it’s hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that’s happened to me.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.