Juliana Hatfield Quotes

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

As time goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up with solutions.

Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.

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

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy; not being able to look at the other person down the street.

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

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

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

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

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

I thought I had a talent for alienating people, but I have no idea what it is that doesn't go over.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

Work is a different type of pursuit than relationships. You can't take the skills that you know that have gotten you into that great school or into that great job and apply them to your relationships.

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.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

I am terrible at relationships.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.