Patrick J. Adams Quotes

One of my strengths is my ability to talk and communicate with people.

I'm a people person. That's my bread and butter.

My father always has been attractive because of his energy, warmth, charm, and talent for finding some connection with people from all cultures and walks of life. He rarely observed social formalities and niceties - something he has passed on to his boys.

I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.

Waitresses, soldiers, rickshaw drivers, old ladies selling vegetables - my father would schmooze anybody. He was Clintonesque before the word existed. And, of course, it paid dividends. Ill-tempered guards at the most notorious border crossings waved him through with cheery smiles. Haughty maitre d's fawned over him.

It is better to be likable than to be talented.

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

People in business tend to have an instinctive reaction to people.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

You can put my dad in any situation and he's going to figure it out. He's going to figure the people out and how to get along, how to make everyone comfortable.

That's what helps me in my career: I know how to relate to people, knowing what they want.

If I don't have any other strength, I'm pretty good at building relationships.

If you're likable, people will like you.

I don't have any problems getting people to open up.

When we come to the table, we shouldn't negotiate right away. We should spend time walking together, eating together, making acquaintance, telling each other about our own suffering, without blame or condemnation. It takes maybe one, two, three weeks to do that. And if communication and understanding are possible, negotiation will be easier. So if I am to organize a peace negotiation, I will organize it in that way.

I don't know how to make people like me. Cinna, how do you make people like you?

I feel very open with people, and I'm good at disarming them and having conversations.

I do a lot of schmoozing.

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.

My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.

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.

There is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.