Robert C. Solomon Quotes

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.

Opening up is something I have to learn how to do if I'm going to be in this business.

The key ingredient to building trust is not time. It is courage.

The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet there is enough confidence between mother and child, husband and wife, buyer and seller . . . to make social life a practical possibility. Confidence may be risky, but it is nothing like so risky as mistrust.

The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.

And that doesn't cost any money, to have decent relationships and viable situations. What costs money is car chases and shoot-outs, so I always thought that the thing to work on was the characters.

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.

Effective listening is something that can absolutely be learned and mastered. Even if you find attentive listening difficult and, in certain situations, boring or unpleasant, that doesn't mean you can't do it. You just have to know what to work on.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends.

I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

I didn't know how to get along with others. I didn't even know how to be in the same room with other people. Then, after a while, you learn.

My agenda... is to learn about people.

I had to learn to be more open with people and to know how to show that I was interested in them.

There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.

Trust is built step by step, commitment by commitment, on every level.

I don't know how to make people like me. Cinna, how do you make people like you?

You have to have a patience for relationships.

Trust is a skill, one that is an aspect of virtually all human practices, cultures, and relationships.

I'm not a good listener some times. I'm too much of a control freak. I'm learning to be better. I was so caught up in just getting the job done that I would miss out on the human aspect of this. There was a connection missing.

...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.

Just as I need other human beings in order to learn from them, so I also need their trust. If we aren't aware of that, if we fail to take it to heart and instead betray other people's trust, things will go badly with us.