W. Kamau Bell Quotes

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

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

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?

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

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

If you worry less about what people think of you, you can pick up an astonishing amount of information about them. You no longer leave conversations wondering what just happened. Other people's minds and motives are finally revealed.

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

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

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 can tell you this: I'm an extremely passionate individual. I try to be careful how I display it because you never know how people are going to take it.

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.

I'm good at picking friends.

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.

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

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.

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.'

Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.

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

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.

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.