Sylvia Plath Quotes

I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful.

You know what? It's a great conversation starter, right? You meet friends that way. Sometimes it's a good thing. And then other times, I guess, the person is just a little too... then you kind of like want to back away. It depends on the person, you know?

I'm one extreme or the other. I'm not good at doing moderation.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

I'm kind of an all-or-nothing kind of guy.

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

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

As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

The best way to know people is to work with them.

People fascinate the hell out of me. I never get tired of watching people, listening to people. The best part is not getting up in front of people but meeting people.

I'm not a terribly social person, and so I have to really like people to work with them.

When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.

The key is to learn to respect and honor the complications of other people's lives

If people are pro-Israel, they are pro-Israel one-hundred-and-twenty percent. If they are anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, they tend to be pro-Palestinian one-hundred-and-twenty percent.

Humanity inspires me, people inspire me, I've always been a people person, and I love people.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.

I don't like being on my own. I'm happy meeting people and collaborating.

I find people confusing.

The organizer must become schizoid, politically, in order to slip into becoming a true believer. Before men can act an issue must be polarized. Men will act when they are convinced their cause is 100 percent on the side of the angels and that the opposition are 100 percent on the side of the devil. He knows there can be no action until issues are polarized to this degree.

People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.

I never became a recluse where I got away from people and who they are and how they think. I'm very much in touch with the world.

One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.