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Quotes About People skills

What we're doing is an aesthetic pursuit. It involves craftsmanship as well as mathematics and it involves people skills and prose skills—all of these things that we don't necessarily think of as engineering but without which I don't think you'll ever be a really good engineer.
~ Peter Seibel
I think the lie we've told people in the marketplace is that a degree gets you a job. A degree doesn't get you a job. What gets you a job is the ability to carry yourself into that room and shake a hand and look someone in the eye and have people skills. These are the things that cause people to become successful.
~ Dave Ramsey
That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.
~ Ray Harryhausen
I like dealing with people. I like being around people, and that side of me can try to get the best out of others, really. As a player and as a captain, I felt I did that.
~ Scott Parker
People say I train dogs, but in many ways I train people.
~ Cesar Millan
Glenn, with his playing and his personality, he was one special person. He was the frontman on stage. He was a good talker and really good with people.
~ Randy Meisner
American culture is very good at interpersonal relationships and people skills, whereas we're incredibly adept at academics and straightforward 19th-century Victorian education.
~ Alice Eve
Being in the profession of acting, I definitely have to be a people's person and socialise when it's an absolute necessity.
~ Lara Dutta
Filmmaking is all about people management.
~ Farah Khan
Competence As many cases show, a police officer without an understanding of people will not deal competently with conflict, while one who has it can calm adversaries and ease tension.
~ Edwin J. Delattre
You seriously lack people skills. (Fang) And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. (Thorn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I spend 60 percent of my time planning, 60 percent with people, and all other duties are completed with whatever time is left
~ Alden W. Clausen
I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
~ Zooey Deschanel
Learn the basics of analytics and people will love you. If you don't have time to learn, hire someone.
~ W. Edwards Deming
Management isn't just about tactics and what happens on the training ground or in a game. Of course you need those skills. But what you also need is people skills.
~ Scott Parker
One thing for me that modeling definitely did was that you go to do a different job every day, and you are working with a completely new team of people. You have to learn how to talk to people and how to creatively achieve the same goals. I think it just hones your people skills.
~ Cat Deeley
the interest of employee feedback, this guy needs to work on his people skills.
~ Brandon Mull
I like to believe that I got my business knowledge from my dad. He was able to see trends a long way off. And my mom is very good with people and emotional.
~ John T. Chambers
A lot of people relate leadership to formalities. They believe that leadership is about being professional and strong and always right and being a booming voice. I just don't buy that. I think that leadership is a soft skill; it's a people skill.
~ Jason Fried
This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
~ Walter Murch
So I want to share a little news. You getting married? Butch tossed back half the new Lag. Where you registered? Crate and Bury 'Em? Try Heckler and Koch. The Reverend opened his jacket and flashed the butt of a forty. Nice little poodle shooter you got there, vampire. Put a hell of a- V cut in. You two are like playing tennis, and racquet sports bore me. What's the news? Revh looked at Butch. He has such phenomenal people skills, doesn't he. Try living with him.
~ J.R. Ward
I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It's very clear to see - it's fact. We're not doing enough for those who fail; they need a more physical, tactile approach, involving people skills, team-building, problem-solving, building things.
~ Jamie Oliver
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Unfortunately, for most of us, when we think of having overzealous faith and being a jerk for Jesus, we picture someone with bad breath, bad theology, and no people skills. So it never dawns on us that we could be included.
~ Larry Osborne