Forest Whitaker Quotes

When I was in college, I remember thinking to myself, this internet thing is awesome because you can look up anything you want, you can read news, you can download music, you can watch movies, you can find information on Google, you can get reference material on Wikipedia, except the thing that is most important to humans, which is other people, was not there.

Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people.

I like to live like a local. When you are somewhere, you have to try to take the culture of that place and try to adapt.

It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think – the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late.

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.

It is important always to remember that virtual contact cannot and must not take the place of direct human contact with people at every level of our lives.

She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.

I've actually spent about half of my life overseas in the third world. I grew up in Tanzania, East Africa, and later lived in South-West Asia. In general, everywhere I go, I am treated with great respect and hospitality, but I need to be sensitive to cultural, tribal and ethical customs of the local people. In this modern era of technology, I think we forget that the most important thing when traveling is to listen and learn, and establish relationship, and not be hidden behind technology like Goretex, emails, satellite phones, and insulated from the people around you.

Life works best when we think of people as people.

The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.

I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.

In school math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably in my true self I'm more of a people person. At the same time, I don't think that's how I recharge.

My support system is simple - people and time. The miracle of other people in your life.

How many people ask you to come share their life?

I just think it's sad that the main places in our culture that we designate to meet new people are bars and nightclubs.

I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

I certainly don' think I could've played the character [Idi Amin] the same way without being in Uganda. I loved working in Uganda.

I never became a recluse where I got away from people and who they are and how they think. I'm very much in touch with the world.

I do feel there is a certain amount of distance and apathy that's created when you feel like there's a distance between you and the other people. So it's very easy to... when you have an app that sets it up where you very clearly swipe somebody's face off of your screen because you don't like the way they look, you're asking people to not appeal to their best selves. You're asking people to be brutal.

My big thing is people. I just love people in my life.

Lovely place, shame about the people!

I think that when people start hanging around each other, they start to pick on on each other's quirks and taste in music, apparently.

The network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful.

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms

What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.