Dale Carnegie Quotes

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

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I've had a lot of experience with that.

I think I am a pretty good at understanding each character of each person I meet.

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

I hate people.

I think creative people need to do a bit of, you know, tuning into every radio station - you just do, otherwise you don't know much about other people. You kind of have to learn a bit about yourself so you can work out how we all behave and why we do the things we do.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

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.

Watch people and how they handle other people. You have to stay open and keep your eyes open to them.

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.

Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

I'm not in the what-people-feel business. It is not my place to guess.

My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

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

I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. It's also taught me about getting into an environment with new people and acting like you've known them forever.

I'm not good at confrontation. I know my strengths. I like company. And I am not a great arguer... I do find it much easier talking to people I like about things we both like.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

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.

Your family is unavoidable. You cannot escape them or trade them in for another family. You also can't change them... but you can change your response to them.

I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.