Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

I'm just totally fascinated by people.

I like people, and I like to be around people. They are fascinating. I like to behave like a common man. I am a common man.

I love to learn about people.

I know, for a fact, that I'm a very different person on my own than I am with someone else. We are different with each other. These things are constantly adjusted. And that's true of humans. That's not just true of famous people.

What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

I am very much a people person. If I am in a beautiful place but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

I spend most of my life just listening to people.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

Try to do your best to look people in the eye and talk to them without a gadget being in between you all the time.

I've observed a few things about the few really great people I've had a chance to meet and cover...They need to be around people. You and I require sleep. They require people.

Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?

The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

I like to see how people interact with each other and I draw from that. I'm inspired by that.

One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.

Humans are pack animals. In Biblical times, the great market cities in Europe or the United States, people want to be with other people. And in a way, the more that we're isolated, whether we're living on farms and we're only talking to our cell phone, the greater the need we have for group experience. So while people are saying that no one is going to go shopping because it's just inconvenient, and it's not as easy as buying online, why are people going to concerts? Why are people going to museums? Why are they going to sporting events?

I'm always looking for a nexus, where you can put all these diverse people together, see how they respond to one another, see what they learn about each other, and what they like and don't like.

Sometimes I'll leave the house and go to a delicatessen down the street from me - it's been there a million years - just because I can look at people.

Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.

People are people. Don't be afraid of them.

I love the process of working with people and having things going on, all the time, and just trying to trust your instincts.

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.

Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people.

Seduction is a matter of feelings and people opening themselves. I don't think it's something tricky - it's being human. And everybody is seduced by something different.