Alfred Adler Quotes

I try to stay in line and not be a jerk. I've always been conscious that if I really screw up, people might notice.

Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community.

Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you've got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

Nice goes much further than mean.

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.

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

A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no less than the physical one, is fateful for everyone concerned and in every society appears to come under strict normative regulation, giving rise to a kind of communication traffic order.

If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.

The way you see people is the way you treat them.

Been chatting much with Jared?" "We often have special moments where I come into a room and he immediately leaves," Kami said. "I treasure those times.

Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

Telephone companies sell us voice plans because they know we're not going to use them. We're hiding from each other. People say that calls aren't efficient, but trying to bring efficiency into your intimacy can get you into a lot of trouble.

Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.

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

A lot of our lives are about being polite.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

In my opinion when you speak about relationships between people, you are actually talking about everything in their world because everything is contained in that relationship.

Have you ever heard of the expression, ladies first" "Yes" "Well, it's truer in bed than it is anywhere else.

People who stare deserve the looks they get.

I think that when people start hanging around each other, they start to pick on on each other's quirks and taste in music, apparently.

If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.