Henry Cloud Quotes

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

I remember how to be a person by being around them.

Trying to learn to be a good man is like learning to play tennis against a wall. You are only a good man - a competent, capable, interesting and lovable man - when you're doing it for, or with, other people.

Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

I spend most of my life just listening to people.

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.

I take time to be with people, and I learn a lot.

I take a lot of pride in connecting with people - period.

I love to learn about people.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

I want to be better at staying connected.

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

What I was actually trying to do in my early movies was show how people can meet other people and what they can do and what they can say to each other. That was the whole idea: two people getting acquainted.

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.

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.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

I love working closely with people.

I'm not that interested in people.

My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?

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

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

Work is a different type of pursuit than relationships. You can't take the skills that you know that have gotten you into that great school or into that great job and apply them to your relationships.