Philip Green Quotes

I think one of my strengths is kind of knowing people and getting a good read and a feel for what that person's strengths might be.

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.

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

You must look into people as well as at them.

I know when people are with me or not. It's an instinct.

I think I am a pretty good at understanding each character of each person I meet.

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

It's dangerous to be people-blind.

The ability to understand people is a choice.

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

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

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.

Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because writers, in order to write good characters, need to understand people. You need to understand your audience. You need to have so much empathy you could almost encourage empathy in others.

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

I think I'm a good judge of character.

I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.

The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?

But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.