Quotes About Interpersonal

When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.

Part of your job as a businessperson and diplomat is to get what you need and to not take it too personally.

it is singularly unpleasant—for you and for those at the receiving end. It is also counterproductive and therefore inefficient.

39. Adapte-se às coisas que o destino lhe reservou. Busque amar, verdadeiramente, as pessoas com quem tem de se relacionar.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago, these are not huge.

A man didn't specialize in mathematics because he had a rare talent for human relationships.

Even the simplest interaction racked him with anxiety. He was always missing cues, it seemed. And yet Mercy loved him. He had never asked her why; he was afraid that if she reflected too deeply, she would realize her mistake. He just kept the thought close to his chest, and polished it and cherished it as he had since the day she had said yes to him: Mercy loves me.

British anthropologist Robin Dunbar theorized that a typical person can't easily have more than 150 people in his tribe. After 150 friends and fellow citizens, we can't keep track. It's too complicated.

Just as with all interpersonal relationships in our life, we are made to suffer by those things we have chosen and, in confronting our choices, we gradually discover ourselves.

Never looking anyone in the eye when you're traveling on public transport, in case it's interpreted as a sign that you're trying to get off with them.

Tact does for life just what lubricating oil does for machinery.

You let your guard down to one person, pretty soon other people started creeping in over the razor wire and around the force fields, too. And then they inevitably hurt you, and what might have been a few chips and dents of your deflectors were working turned, instead into a full-sledged meteor storm, leaving behind cracked bones and big meaty gauges.

Stop smelling me," she said to him.

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

Family! Our families determine who we are, determine who we're not. All our relationships with everybody we ever meet for the rest of our lives is based on the way we relate to the members of our family. No wonder the world's so fucked up.

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

The trickiest thing about the double bind is that it operates imperceptibly, like shots from a gun with a silencer.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'

have rewarding and successful relationships with their peers and others.

Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.

Getting along with people is a byproduct of constructive communication, and it is a skill that can be taught. Not only can it be taught-it should be taught!