Menander Quotes

Keep this question in mind: 'What would I think of this if I exchanged places with the other person?' It paves the way to more successful action.

I'm good at picking friends.

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

It’s important for me to hear others position and understand them.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

There is one particular argument that I call our 'ancient war.' If it could be summed up in one phrase, it would be, 'You don't get it. You don't understand what it's like to be me living with you.' There is such truth in that statement. None of us can really appreciate what it is like to be the other person, what that point of view feels like.

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

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

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if I was in your position, this is how I would see it.'

We lack social awareness because we're so focused on what we're going to say next - and how what other people are saying affects us - that we completely lose sight of other people. This is a problem because people are complicated. You can't hope to understand someone until you focus all of your attention in his or her direction.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

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

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

Listen more than you talk.

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

I'm engaged: I'm interested in other people. I think that's just as important as knowing how to do the job.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.