Bob Greene Quotes

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

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

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

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

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

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.

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.

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.

If I don't have any other strength, I'm pretty good at building relationships.

I think one of my strengths is kind of knowing people and getting a good read and a feel for what that person's strengths might be.

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

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

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

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.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.

I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about.

I think I've got a good feel. A feel for... being able to walk with different people. Or for being able to look at people and think, 'Yeah, I might know what they want to wear.'

I meet people in my business who have this extraordinary ability to understand human nature in their work, but in real life, they don't seem to have the first clue.

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'd like to think my strengths are in connecting with people and the relationship aspect of this business.

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.

It's very rare that someone who is so good at the language of numbers, is as good at the language of life. They're two very different worlds.

You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.

I spend most of my life just listening to people.