David Brooks Quotes

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

I'm a people person. I like being with people. So I like being a teacher, and so on.

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

My only self-confidence and satisfaction comes from the people that I do meet; I have fondness for people. I mean, I like to hug. And I also like to be hugged.

I am always stimulated by people. Almost never by ideas.

One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people.

Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

You get along with certain people, but sometimes it feels like a job and you don't feel that instant connection with people.

She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.

Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities that make us human emerge only in the ways we relate to other people.

As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

I just want to meet as many people as I can and talk with as many people as I can, but whatever allows me to do that then that's my main goal. It's just to understand as much as I can about life and how it happens.

That's why I've never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found that in a precarious situation, a smile is the shortest distance between people. When one needs to reach out for sympathy or a link with people, what better way is there?

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

I find people confusing.

One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.

I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.

All people want on this earth is to connect with others. Other than eating and sleeping. Human beings need to connect with other human beings. Otherwise, they lose their mind.

I don't collect anything. I collect people, I think. I'm very social and I like seeing a lot of people.

Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people.

I like meeting people and I like being able to help.

I love energy and people; gosh I love people even when they got on my nerves.