Quotes About Interpersonal

At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring in fits and starts.

Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone.

Jacián!" She yells again, and then she says something in Spanish. A moment later he comes down the hallway. "I'm going to tell Grandfather you said that," he says. "What do you want?

If the way you've been treating me is a mark of fondness, maybe you'd better take a fresh look at your interpersonal communication skills.

A person chooses a partner with a similar degree of "brokenness" and does a dance of dysfunction where they both know the steps. Therefore, one person cannot be so much healthier than the other. Healthy people do not dance with unhealthy people.

It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented.

You need face time, not computer time. When you're in a tough job market, it's the personal touch that gets you the job.

You should just keep your mouth shout! It gets very tedious having you make a snarky comment about everything that someone says in this group.

Success is "the attainment of your desire or definite chief aim without violating the rights of other people." Regardless of what your major aim in life may be, you will attain it with much less difficulty after you learn how to cultivate a pleasing personality and you learn to deal with others without friction or envy.

Not all communication problems are the result of inadequate education; sometimes the cause is a self-concept that generates self-sabotage.

you got two feet, Sethe, not four. he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.

The Morgans always seemed to be having a second conversation—an unheard dialogue right next to the one they spoke aloud.

Professional success has not cured Prince's interpersonal problems, it's just given him the space to not have to say sorry.

By the early 1980s, the view that most any conflict—domestic or international, intergroup or interpersonal—could be reframed and negotiated to a satisfying conclusion if only the right technical skills were brought to bear on it had become part of the popular imagination. Books championing such technical approaches regularly appeared on bestseller lists.

Often individuals whose mental gifts so far outpaced their contemporaries, tended to lack the social graces commensurate with their other accomplishments.

zu erwachsenen Leuten nicht du sagen darf. Sie hat dabei

Man's awesome scientific advances into the infinitude of space as well as the infinitude of sub-atomic particles seems most likely to lead to the total destruction of our world unless we can make great advances in understanding and dealing with interpersonal and inter-group tensions. I

There seems every reason to suppose that the therapeutic relationship is only one instance of interpersonal relations, and that the same lawfulness governs all such relationships. Thus it seems reasonable to hypothesize that if the parent creates with his child a psychological climate such as we have described, then the child will become more self-directing, socialized, and mature.

I punched to line. "Yes? What?" "Norville. It's Cormac. If you don't change the subject right now, I'm going to have to go over there and have a word with you.

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

The art of dealing with people is the foremost secret of successful men. A man's success in handling people is the very yardstick by which the outcome of his whole life's work is measured.

Butch clapped him on the shoulder. "Listen to me. You have the fashion sense of a park bench and the interpersonal skills of a meat cleaver—" "Is this supposed to be helping?