Marques Houston Quotes

I like being around people who are good conversationalists.

She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.

One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people.

Being polite, being respectful, having manners, and being a socialite - they're key life skills that people take for granted. Being able to communicate with all people on all levels is what's got me so far.

All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions.

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

The best way to know people is to work with them.

What our profession is all about is interacting with people.

When you are with young people, it is almost inconceivable that things wouldn't arise that you'd have to respond to, such as someone wrestling on the bus. And how you handle that, how you respond to that, how you deal with that is a lesson to the people you are on the bus with.

Once I can talk to people, I switch them over on my side.

Kids are so busy with different things and are occupied with other things, so when they do find themselves to be creative, it's often that they can be creative in the kitchen and they get the opportunity to bond with family, friends and talk. It just opens up their lines of communication. We need that now for these young people.

Our success depends very largely upon how well we negotiate our way through our daily contacts with other people without friction or opposition.

If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.

I've learned I don't like being around people too much. It's hard to stand around and make conversation with people I've learned. But I do want to be the guy that can do it easily.

Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.

I've never really had a problem with people.

You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.

Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.

I'm a people person. I never get tired of watching people, especially young people.

I treat everybody the same. You know I love to be with people: the youngsters.

It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.

I've always been someone who likes to talk to people. When I was a little kid, I sought out freaks and weirdos that wandered the streets by where I worked in high school. I would just bring them in and talk to them.