Brian Grazer Quotes

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.

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.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

I have no idea why, and this is others' observations of me - I tend to be in the realm of these very complicated personalities. I guess I enjoy corralling that.

As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.

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

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.

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.

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

I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

I guess I'm just quite observant and I pay attention to a lot of things. Human behavior really fascinates me.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.

In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.

Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.

I went to dinner with my mother-in-law and I just realized I was talking in sound bites to her and expecting her to laugh every time I said anything or be jotting something down in a notebook. So you have to kind of really have a talk with yourself after you've done a press tour and say, 'Chill out!'

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.