Julie Payette Quotes

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.

There is enormous value in face to face interaction.

I always want there to be room for people to connect. That is so important, especially in an office.

It's wonderful to move forward technologically, but we cannot forget that we are human beings who thrive on relationships, who thrive on interconnectivity, who thrive on sharing your feelings and emotions.

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

Guys are so easygoing and girls are a little harder to please, but that's okay.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.

I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!

I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

I'm just totally fascinated by people.

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

There's something about studying body language and non-spoken emotion - I know the innate response. But to really study it like a science would be fun.

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.

We need to learn to observe and listen to people more to get to know them.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

When two people are paying close attention to each other, check out the others in the group and see who's observing. Human dynamics are amazing, but so much that you might learn is subconscious interplay.