Brad Hall Quotes

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Watch people and how they handle other people. You have to stay open and keep your eyes open to them.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

In doing what I'm doing, you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're not dealing with numbers, you're dealing with people. And I will continue to be sensitive to that.

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.

If someone is interested in medicine and also in physics and they like working with people and communicate well with others, I would strongly encourage them.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

I've had a ton of fast-food jobs - it changes your approach to human interaction forever.

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

Human interaction in a complex environment is key to our [military] success in the future.

I like to talk to people on the phone. I don't like to do critical stuff by text message.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I've had a lot of experience with that.

Viewers can't work or play while watching television; they can't read; they can't be out on the streets, falling in love with the wrong people, learning how to quarrel and compromise with other human beings. In short, they are asocial.

I'm a problem solver. I love people. The more complicated they are, the more I get into them, and I just want to understand what makes them tick.

I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

A great listener - that was my talent!

I believe that the ability to talk to people and have them feeling engaged rather than patronised isn't something you can learn. It's a bit like being able to sing or play cricket. You can either do it, or you can't.

Unlike his father, Churchill was not a natural speaker.

I feel like I'm a good listener.

Teachers have always said my only strength is talking and that I talk very fast.

Talking, being a better talker, wouldn't have been that hard. It was just, I was just naturally gifted at other things.

I try to talk on the phone as little as possible.

The greatest form of expression - or, at least, the most common that we have as human beings, what separates us from the animals - is speaking: the ability to communicate.