Michael McIntyre Quotes

I've always thought I'd been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-free life, you know?

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

People take things too personally - I don't. If someone says something about me, I let it go. But unfortunately, everyone isn't like that. So I'm trying to be more diplomatic - but people always want a headline from me!

I can do the PR thing until the cows come home. That's my nature. I never want to upset anybody.

I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.

I get along with people very easily.

I like to keep everyone happy. I feel like it's my responsibility to do that.

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

It's more important to get along with people than to get ahead of them.

Typically, I would run away from conflict and write about it - that was easier than staying and dealing face-to-face with humans; that's terrifying for me.

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

I'm not good at confrontation. I know my strengths. I like company. And I am not a great arguer... I do find it much easier talking to people I like about things we both like.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

I don't fight with people - like, I can barely fight with my husband because I'll just start crying instead.

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

Tactically, yelling at Google is unwise.

I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did.

I want to try to make difficult people somehow relatable.

Your relationship with your sister-in-law is hingeing on your brother's - or your sister-in-law's - ability to keep that relationship together.

The one piece of advice I would give to all girlfriends - or guy friends, too, I guess - is that if you're going to have a fight in a Baja Fresh parking lot, make sure one of you has an available pair of sunglasses because whoever is crying is going to want to wear them.

I've always gotten along pretty well with people.

Let the other person save face.

Another rule I have is: Don't let your ego get tied up in a policy dispute. Otherwise, if things don't go your way, you can end up breaking a relationship with somebody with whom you can't afford to break.

You've got to be able to know someone really well to be able to have a row and then also walk away from it and not have it matter, especially in this business. That doesn't mean to say we have many rows but I think the nearest thing to a row would be just flatly disagreeing with something .