Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

I have to be socially aware; I feel like that's my job.

Sensitivity doesn't necessarily make you easy to get on with.

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

Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.

People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.

I think, for me, personally, I try to be sensitive to issues as I learn about them. And I also try to constantly become not only a certain type of person but also become more in tune to the issues I'm covering. As I get older, I think that things just affect me more.

I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken.

I just think self-satisfied people ignore certain signs about other people.

I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.

I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

Remember to be sensitive to the feelings of people around you.

Ultimately, my character is defined by the quality of my sensitivity to other people. I exist in equilibrium. I am here to the degree I am there.

There are people with Asperger's whom I've met who certainly would be very upset to learn they'd hurt another person's feelings. They often have very strong moral consciences and moral codes. They care about not hurting people.

I try to be, like, hella sensitive to my surroundings.

Being sensitive means caring for your own feelings as well as those of others.

I try and strike a balance between being sensible and sensitive.

Always be interested in what's happening with other people.

Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our own selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think a hundred times before you act upon it-and then you will be safe.

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

We need to be more sensitive to each other.

The only time the private parts of someone's life are relevant is when they're affecting public performance. And just because someone is a public person doesn't mean that any part of his or her private life is open to scrutiny. If someone is doing his or her job, you have to have enough empathy to understand that we all have personal problems.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

I'm not in the what-people-feel business. It is not my place to guess.

The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

Consciously be sensitive to others, and try to elevate their level of consciousness. Don't do this by being preachy and telling them that they 'should' do this or that. Do it by raising your own level of energy and recognizing what's best in others.