Natalie Portman Quotes

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

My agenda... is to learn about people.

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

I love to learn about people.

Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.

I'm not a good listener some times. I'm too much of a control freak. I'm learning to be better. I was so caught up in just getting the job done that I would miss out on the human aspect of this. There was a connection missing.

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

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

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

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

Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.

I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.

I have a horrible memory and I used to consider that a liability, but I've learned along the way that talking to people is really a beautiful thing.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

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.

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

When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

I spent over 90 percent of my time talking to people who didn’t have to listen to me.

He loves people, but even more than that he loves to talk to people.

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.

I want people to get to know me, because I want to get to know them.

I don't like to write about myself. I like listening to 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.