Cathy Engelbert Quotes

I think that the most important thing we have is our ability communicate and love other humans.

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

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?

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

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

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.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

Communication is so key.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

I'm a goodhearted person. I interact with people all the time.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.

Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.

We need to learn to observe and listen to people more to get to know them.

For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.

There's not a human being alive I won't talk to. There's a quite simple rule. If you like somebody more than you dislike them you can have a relationship. Once you accept you like 75 per cent but 25 per cent you find irritating for this or that reason, you just have to ignore that 25 per cent.

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

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

As long as you keep yourself in love with people, you can transcend time.