George W. Bush Quotes

Part of my job is to get out and talk to people. I do that as much as I can.

Connecting with people is an important part of my role [as a politician].

I do a lot of schmoozing.

School doesn't really teach you how to interact with people properly, you learn that outside of school.

I like meeting people and I like being able to help.

I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.

I'm very good at meeting people, very outgoing.

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

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.

Connecting the dots is connecting people.

I was a bartender for four years, and that was the best training that I had for learning how to approach people.

I love to get out and meet people.

People en masse have lost the ability to go out there and meet people in real life.

One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.

I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.

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 never became a recluse where I got away from people and who they are and how they think. I'm very much in touch with the world.

Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

I hear a lot of young people talking about the need to network. I think that is true, and I think that building a network makes sense. But I also think that there is another way to approach it, and that is to try to make friends. Just try to make a lot of friends.

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.

You can't influence people you refuse to associate with.

I'm out and about meeting people all day long. And I'm very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.

Keep saying hello to people. They will be the differentiator for you for the rest of your life.