Himesh Patel Quotes

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.

In the '90s, I never socialised with other players.

Watch people and how they handle other people. You have to stay open and keep your eyes open to them.

I have a real hard time with inter-personal relationships. I find it really taxing. Especially, like, friendships and being in bands.

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day.

I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.

Kev has these old Boston drills, where you all have to talk to each other, and interact, and it's helped us.

I always have a ping-pong table in the studio. If you're with an artist and you notice the situation is going south a little bit, it's like, 'You wanna play ping-pong or foosball?' Or, 'You wanna go grab somethin' to eat?' And then you just like talk to them and relax them and get them comfortable and get yourself comfortable.

We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.

We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.

I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that.

I love observing people.

You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.

I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people; I like to share ideas.

You can get too close as a team. You need time away from each other. You change in the same dressing room, you play on the same cricket field, you stay in the same hotel, you travel in the same planes and buses. C'mon - this business of everyone holding hands and being pally is nonsense.

When people ask what I'd like to do next, the answer is usually, 'Something with people in rooms.'

If you're talking about how you promoted synergy in an organization, that could mean you just got everybody together for donuts twice a week.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.