Adam Driver Quotes

Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.

As I've gotten to know myself over the years, I realised I'm kind of a sweet, sensitive guy, a shy guy, and communication is not something I'm so good at.

Knowing who I am as a player and working on my deficiencies, communication is something I try to pride myself on.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

At the Brooklyn Ethical Culture School, we learned to express ourselves, and I've been expressing myself ever since.

The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

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

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

I need to learn to be more assertive.

Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

It took me to be 33 to start to know how to fight.

If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.

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.

We have to teach girls communication skills.

Rock 'n' roll says, 'Hey, man, this is where you can be normal,' and then after a while you grow up and you go, 'Wait a minute. Oh, by the way, I learned how to do these cool things, but I never learned how to speak my mind. I never learned how to express myself emotionally. I should have been paying attention more.'

I'd like to be more assertive when it comes to confrontation. I'm fine on the pitch, but off the pitch, I'm a bit of a softy.

Out of frustration, I say things. Now, people listen to me so much I can say it under my breath and everybody hears me... I said in the past that I'm a work in progress, and I feel like I'm progressing.

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

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.

As a kid, I was always very shy growing up - I wasn't very good at articulating my thoughts or my feelings. Now that I'm older, I found acting to do that. So it's been an amazing way to sort of express who I am.

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.