Pamela Druckerman Quotes

As I've gotten to know myself over the years, I realised I'm kind of a sweet, sensitive guy, a shy guy, and communication is not something I'm so good at.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

I've always thought I had pretty good instincts for people. There is a short list of people I've worked with over my career with whom I've not been able to distinguish easily between the public persona and the real private person.

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

I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

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

I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.

I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

As a psychologist, I can tell you that there are people who look very good in a group, but they're very different in a one-on-one situation.

The one thing I really learned, and learned well, in group therapy was that you don't die if someone doesn't like you.

Keeping one's eyes open, listening, watching, being quiet, adopting some of the techniques of the psychoanalyst in talking to people, will bring you that surface from which something more comes.

I'm socially awkward in life, and that's one of the reasons why I do what I do. I'm more about interpreting other people's words.

I'd make a good psychiatrist. I can work people out very easily and very quickly. I've been like that since childhood.

Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.

That seems to be my superpower - really understanding what motivates people.

Stand-up comedians know how to walk into a room, even if you're not performing, just read the temperature of a room, and can easily sort of tell what's going on or what people are sort of feeling in the room, and it allows you to sort of approach people.

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most men never mature; they simply grow taller.

I think it would do a lot of people good just to realize how vulnerable they are.

I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.