social interactions quotes

The Hindus are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

Even now I will go to, like, an industry event, and all the ladies will be over here and all the guys over here, and I will go to the guys‘ table and sit because I just feel I can have a much better conversation over there. And that’s automatic; it’s not prejudice.

I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it’s the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there’s not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

When I walk outside, people have something to say about it.

Hell is other people.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

It takes me about two hours to run into Target. People always want a picture. They hem and haw, and they can’t spit the words out, so they waste about five minutes of my time just standing there getting ready for a picture. Just do it!