Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

When you talk, you only talk about something that you already know. But when you listen, you can learn something you don’t know.

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 learned in life from a very young age that I soaked in a lot more from people that I respected and could learn from rather than a textbook.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

My trademark at CNN was really asking insightful questions and making sure people are understanding the connections in humanity, and I think that is the core of education.

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.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people.

The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?

One of the ways you learn about life is to associate with people.

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I've had a lot of experience with that.

I think I've got a good feel. A feel for... being able to walk with different people. Or for being able to look at people and think, 'Yeah, I might know what they want to wear.'

You must look into people as well as at them.

I always had a lot of confidence in my ability to gauge a situation and people and try to understand them and what they were saying and what their context was.

People don't realize it's not just about being funny, and they don't know how perceptive a comedian needs to be about human nature. You have to really be able to read a situation and peoples' emotions.

I think one of my strengths is kind of knowing people and getting a good read and a feel for what that person's strengths might be.

I feel like I can get a good feel for people.

The best way to know people is to work with them.

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

Verbal slip-ups often occur because we say things without knowledge of the subtle implications they carry. Understanding these implications requires social awareness - the ability to pick up on the emotions and experiences of other people.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.