Virginia Woolf Quotes

I am vibe oriented and am able to read people right most of the time.

I know when people are with me or not. It's an instinct.

I can feel things - tap into emotions. When I meet a new person, I know their life straight away. I suppose you could call it a special intuition, but it's my number one quality, and I'm always 99.9 percent right. If I don't like someone, it always turns out to be for a good reason.

My sister can walk down the street and just know what's going on with people. She'll say, 'Oh, they're going through a divorce' or, 'Their kid just went off to college' or, 'He just got a great job.'

But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

I think I've got a good feel. A feel for... being able to walk with different people. Or for being able to look at people and think, 'Yeah, I might know what they want to wear.'

I'm an excellent judge of character. I can tell people who want something from me or if they're actually buddies.

I think one of my strengths is kind of knowing people and getting a good read and a feel for what that person's strengths might be.

I feel like I can get a good feel for people.

My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.

People in my inner circle of loved ones - we're tight and I've never misjudged someone as far as I know; I can feel someone's intentions, I know their intentions before they probably are honest enough with themselves to know it, so that's my strength.

I've always thought I had pretty good instincts for people. There is a short list of people I've worked with over my career with whom I've not been able to distinguish easily between the public persona and the real private person.

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.

It's dangerous to be people-blind.

The ability to understand people is a choice.

There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all kinds of stuff, but if you're really bad with people, if you're really naive or aggressive and push people away, if you don't know the political environment you're in, it invalidates all the things you know. You're not going to get anywhere.

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.

Be willing to trust your instincts, especially if you cannot find answers elsewhere.

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

I'm engaged: I'm interested in other people. I think that's just as important as knowing how to do the job.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.