Jock Sturges Quotes

I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.

I'm not good at confrontation. I know my strengths. I like company. And I am not a great arguer... I do find it much easier talking to people I like about things we both like.

I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.

I didn't know how to get along with others. I didn't even know how to be in the same room with other people. Then, after a while, you learn.

I believe that it's important to not just shy away from confrontation.

As time goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up with solutions.

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.

My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.

Your family is unavoidable. You cannot escape them or trade them in for another family. You also can't change them... but you can change your response to them.

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

When I am talking to someone, I can constantly see whether I am failing or succeeding. I am regulating what I am saying in terms of how I think I'm doing. I'm always searching for the truth of a subject or person, and I look at every meeting as a grand experiment.

Maybe almost 20 years ago, I was like, 'God, I need to be more direct.' And I found times that I could practice it when it was maybe not my family or friends or co-workers. It's a quality that's rarely disliked.

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.

Everyone aims to get close to me and I've got to learn how to be able to cope, and that's what we work on all the time.

In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.

My mum had this amazing ability to deflect things, and from an early age, I knew what I was not supposed to talk about.