Rashida Jones Quotes

The people that are my friends and are easy to get along with, they make me feel like I'm a boss at loving people.

My attitude is different. And no one understands me the way my friends do.

Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

The beauty of social awareness is that a few simple adjustments to what you say can vastly improve your relationships with other people.

I love meeting people, and I know it's so difficult for people to come up to me and introduce themselves, so when they do, I'll grab them and hug them. It makes their day, you know? I love that, and I get positive energy from that.

I want to keep an inner life alive and, with luck, somebody else's, too.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.

Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

My only self-confidence and satisfaction comes from the people that I do meet; I have fondness for people. I mean, I like to hug. And I also like to be hugged.

Why anybody gets my sense of humor I never know, but I do know that when they do, I keep them as close as I possibly can.

What I love about the way folks have interacted with me over the years is that they just want to make eye contact and for me to say something nice.

What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

I would go so far as to say I would not have the life that I have right now if it wasn't for Gabe Liedman. He is the first person I met in my adulthood that I felt was truly delighted by me and understood me and also was curious about me.

People who are alone all the time never grow. Those hermits just stay the same. It's only through relationships. Relationships change us and make us grow.

My goal's always to connect and relate to my audience. I want them to leave my show feeling like they got to know me better - not only that, but like we could be friends. I want people to leave going, 'Oh my gosh, I could totally hang out with her!'

People always like people, you know?

I wish I could hug all the fans one by one.

Why push people away? I love when people come up to me and say they appreciate the work!

I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Audiences are my best friends. You never tire of talking with your best friends.

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.