Gertrude Atherton Quotes

Do you like people? Most people claim that they like people with, of course, a "few exceptions." When the exceptions are added together it becomes clear that they include a vast majority of the people. It becomes equally clear that most people like just a few people, their kind of people, and either do not actively care for or actively dislike most of the "other" people.

I'm always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.

I always figure, you come to a party, you gotta know somebody. And somebody leads to another person and leads to somebody else, somebody else. That's one of things that I really enjoy doing.

I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.

The next time you face a room full of strangers . . . you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found.

I tend to be drawn more to people than pure story ideas.

I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.

But I discovered that people like me -- they do, you know, if you like them -- and then it was all right.

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.

Meeting people is difficult, period. LA is a difficult place to meet people anyway, and Hollywood is such a small community. But I don't make it a rule just to date other actors and people in the entertainment industry. It could work out with me and a dentist. It could work out with me and a lawyer.

I don't say I'm not magnetic to try and sound self-deprecating. I'm just not. Though I actually love people. I would like to meet more people. I know no one.

Some things I like to do better than other things, but I've got to say that in the end, the thing that makes it the most interesting for me is who you're with, you know? It's people that make the difference in just about any field, right?

You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway.

There's so many people to see. So many people to check up on and add to your collection.

And again, this connection that you get: I meet Joe at church. Joe's connected to a whole network of people I don't know. Joe likes me. He invites me over to his son's birthday party, and I meet his whole family. I meet his friends. I get to know his neighborhood. That happens all the time.

When you work with new people, I think that it throws all of the matters into relief, because you have to explain yourself every time. It's like crossing a new border. They want to see your documents.

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

Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.

Being around the energy of new people is wonderful. It only lifts my performance and makes it better.

I just want to meet as many people as I can and talk with as many people as I can, but whatever allows me to do that then that's my main goal. It's just to understand as much as I can about life and how it happens.

Making new friends is tough. You don't really know who to trust when you're away from people that you love a lot.

Saying hello doesn't have an ROI. It's about building relationships.

He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.

That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.

Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.