Michael Gurian Quotes

Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.

I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that.

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that.

We have to teach girls communication skills.

From the neighborhoods that we grew up in, we had to learn how to deal with people. How to keep certain people at a distance, how to cut people off completely.

It's funny that through learning how to physically fight, you also learn how to navigate really complicated and hard conversations with people.

I don't always know how to communicate. I think I get a bit unfiltered and a bit strange to people.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

I'm engaged: I'm interested in other people. I think that's just as important as knowing how to do the job.

Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.

You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.

The difference between men and women seems to be this: I can argue with my promoter downstairs, accuse him of ripping me off, and 20 minutes later we'll be playing golf together. With a lady, the same argument can go on for, like, years.

Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.

I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

If you understand gender differences in what I call 'conversational style', you may not be able to prevent disagreements from arising, but you stand a better chance of preventing them from spiraling out of control.

Maybe almost 20 years ago, I was like, 'God, I need to be more direct.' And I found times that I could practice it when it was maybe not my family or friends or co-workers. It's a quality that's rarely disliked.

People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.

Watch people and how they handle other people. You have to stay open and keep your eyes open to them.

I didn't know how to get along with others. I didn't even know how to be in the same room with other people. Then, after a while, you learn.