Maverick Carter Quotes

I take time to be with people, and I learn a lot.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature. I feel very lucky that as a writer I get to learn so much about it just to do my job right.

People want to learn how other people live. It's just human nature.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

I have a natural curiosity for people.

I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life - how people live. I am most interested in individuals and how they respond to challenges or to difficulties or just to each other. I am curious about people.

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

I remember how to be a person by being around them.

I'm curious about people, and I'm curious about getting to the root of where they might be coming from.

Trying to learn to be a good man is like learning to play tennis against a wall. You are only a good man - a competent, capable, interesting and lovable man - when you're doing it for, or with, other people.

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.

I take a lot of pride in connecting with people - period.

If you talk, you only repeat something that you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something that you don't know.

Getting to know people as they are is very, very important.

My agenda... is to learn about people.

Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.

I really enjoy learning about other people and I'm really curious about other people.

What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.

I have an inate curiosity about people.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.