Terry Pratchett Quotes

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

The ability to understand people is one of the greatest assets anyone can ever have.

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

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

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.

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

For most of your career, what you're trying to do is to step into other people's shoes.

I put a lot of emphasis on how to treat people. The reason for this is simple. The real success of our personal lives and careers can best be measured by the relationships we have with the people most dear to us - our family, friends, and coworkers. If we fail in this aspect of our lives, no matter how vast our worldly possessions or how high on the corporate ladder we climb, we will have achieved very little.

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

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.

If you don't understand people, you don't understand business.

The ability to understand people is a choice.

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.

My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.

This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

I'm engaged: I'm interested in other people. I think that's just as important as knowing how to do the job.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

Bergman has a very special eye for people. His background taught him to listen and to feel.

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

I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.

I really believe waiting tables, and service industry jobs in general, make you a better person.