Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange Quotes

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

I've always felt like I had a personal relationship with fans. I'm not afraid to be emotional or vulnerable or humble.

People feel extremely comfortable with me personally.

I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. 'Hey, y'all, I'm cool with everybody.' That's my message.

I would say I'm humanly engaged.

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.

The portal into people's hearts is being interested in them.

The beauty of social awareness is that a few simple adjustments to what you say can vastly improve your relationships with other people.

I'm rather inclined to liking people.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

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

What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.

My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

But I still feel like a normal person... I've walked the streets and I know what it feels like. I speak with humility, and apparently those songs connect with people.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.

I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.