Erik Griffin Quotes

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 am vibe oriented and am able to read people right most of the time.

I've been able to read people real good throughout my life.

If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.

I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

I know when people are with me or not. It's an instinct.

I'm an excellent judge of character. I can tell people who want something from me or if they're actually buddies.

Stand-up comedians know how to walk into a room, even if you're not performing, just read the temperature of a room, and can easily sort of tell what's going on or what people are sort of feeling in the room, and it allows you to sort of approach people.

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

There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all kinds of stuff, but if you're really bad with people, if you're really naive or aggressive and push people away, if you don't know the political environment you're in, it invalidates all the things you know. You're not going to get anywhere.

I have many friends in Special Forces, and the amazing thing about these guys is how quickly they can read someone.

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.

The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

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.

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

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

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

My sister can walk down the street and just know what's going on with people. She'll say, 'Oh, they're going through a divorce' or, 'Their kid just went off to college' or, 'He just got a great job.'

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

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

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.