Larry Wall Quotes

I've always thought I'd been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-free life, you know?

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.

It's more important to get along with people than to get ahead of them.

The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

I don't think that there is a person that I've met - I'm sure there are - that I've had any conflict with.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

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

My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.

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

I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

I'm not good at confrontation. I know my strengths. I like company. And I am not a great arguer... I do find it much easier talking to people I like about things we both like.

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

People take things too personally - I don't. If someone says something about me, I let it go. But unfortunately, everyone isn't like that. So I'm trying to be more diplomatic - but people always want a headline from me!

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different.

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.