Motsi Mabuse Quotes

I just think the more we're observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

I don't take anything at face value. I always look for the reasons people are the way they are.

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.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

I think creative people need to do a bit of, you know, tuning into every radio station - you just do, otherwise you don't know much about other people. You kind of have to learn a bit about yourself so you can work out how we all behave and why we do the things we do.

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

I've always read in order to figure out people more, and that includes bad people and good people.

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.

When I open my mouth and talk, sometimes people say they are amazed of my intellect. I don't know if that's because I truly speak in a way that people can understand or feel a certain way, or because they don't expect it. I don't know. That's something I am curious about.

I think I am a pretty good at understanding each character of each person I meet.

Explore your web: the needs, the beliefs, and the emotions that are controlling you so there's more of you to give and so you can appreciate what's driving other people. It's the only way our world's going to change.

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

I drive my wife crazy. I'm hypersensitive, which she will often point out. She'll say something, and I find the way she said it hurtful. And she'll look at me like I'm an idiot and say, 'What are you talking about?' My radar is probably tuned way too sensitively. I wouldn't want to change it because I do think it's an important part of what I do.

Women on the whole are often not as shallow as men are. They can be, but they cut through things a little more easily than men do in terms of that superficial stuff.

The general consensus seems to be that I don't act at all.

Effective listening is something that can absolutely be learned and mastered. Even if you find attentive listening difficult and, in certain situations, boring or unpleasant, that doesn't mean you can't do it. You just have to know what to work on.

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.