Wanda Sykes Quotes

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

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

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.

The beauty of social awareness is that a few simple adjustments to what you say can vastly improve your relationships with other people.

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 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'm fine around other people's feelings. It doesn't make me nervous or anxious.

Watch people and how they handle other people. You have to stay open and keep your eyes open to them.

Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.

We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood.

Empathy is the bridge to understand those who you may be lucky to one day lead, and it is - in my opinion - the most under-appreciated human skill in business.

I'm interested in roles that are human, that have some sort of empathic quality.

It's always easier to dismiss other people than to go through the awkward and time consuming process of understanding them.

The ability to understand the people you’re dealing with is practical. Leading with respect and curiosity is practical. ... At the center of every healthy family, organization, and nation is a core humanistic skill: the capacity to see others deeply, to understand them, and to make them feel seen, heard, and understood.

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.

We lack social awareness because we're so focused on what we're going to say next - and how what other people are saying affects us - that we completely lose sight of other people. This is a problem because people are complicated. You can't hope to understand someone until you focus all of your attention in his or her direction.

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

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

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.