Shane Dawson Quotes

I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.

A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.

I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.

I always encourage other people to share a story and voices. That is so important.

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.

I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

I'm pretty open, and when I do interviews, I end up blabbing.

Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.

People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.

I don't know whether it's a fear of standing up, but I really love sitting at the table and blabbing. I learn so much that way, and I think I get free that way, free from inhibition and fears.

Great reporters get people to talk to them. Master reporters get people to want to talk to them.

I grew up with my mom always talking to everyone everywhere, whether it was professionally or in a coffee shop. And my dad was the same way. So I love being able to talk to people, hear their stories and be inspired.

I realized that there's this fine line between being personal and being general and being alienating.

I feel like the more I share, the more relatable I am.

I love being an anchor, as it gives you a chance to be yourself.

You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.

I love talking to people and entertaining people.

I don't always know what I want to hear, but I'm gonna try and pull it out and sing it to you, and if you hear it the way I sing it to you, then a wall is broken.

Being able to tell people's stories - this is the most exciting job in the world to me.

Me being so open just helps other people. People feel like they know me so much that they can talk to me all of the time about really personal things. Sometimes it's really nice and comforting. It depends on the person, whether they're creepy or not.