Ali Hewson Quotes

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

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

I think that our view of love and family informs our work, the way we empathize with people.

I think that the most important thing we have is our ability communicate and love other humans.

I love, I love human beings, studying them.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

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

I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

Trying to learn to be a good man is like learning to play tennis against a wall. You are only a good man - a competent, capable, interesting and lovable man - when you're doing it for, or with, other people.

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.

Getting to know people as they are is very, very important.

I love to learn about people.

Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.

Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.

The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush. In the same way, I think the more you know about love, the more you can enjoy it. And knowing about your personality type, who you are and what kind of person you're dealing with gives you a great leg up.

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

I get to meet a lot of people, and I really like people.

My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

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