Michelle Phillips Quotes

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

As time goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up with solutions.

Conversation makes one what he is.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

A lot of men are very possessive and they want to control you. But as you grow older, you attract people who are on your wavelength and who understand who you are.

Girls didn't really take much interest in me until I was about 14. But I knew how to talk to them very quickly. What I figured out - that my friends didn't - was you have to talk to women like you're not constantly trying to have sex with them. That seemed to work.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

I have a horrible memory and I used to consider that a liability, but I've learned along the way that talking to people is really a beautiful thing.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

I'm the biggest fan of face-to-face communication.

Our phones do play to our natural nervousness about being vulnerable to each other, but that doesn't mean that we can't we can't pull ourselves together, and say - we need to talk to each because it's in conversation, the most human and humanizing thing that we do, that empathy is born, that intimacy is born, that relationship is born.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush. In the same way, I think the more you know about love, the more you can enjoy it. And knowing about your personality type, who you are and what kind of person you're dealing with gives you a great leg up.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

I talk to women for a living. It's pretty much what I do with my day.

Communication is important.

Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.

I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.

I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.