Patricia Reilly Giff Quotes

I'm a people watcher, and I love to listen.

I think you can tell a lot about people if you observe them as they're observing.

Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!

I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

I love observing people.

I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me.

I learned a lot just watching people perform.

I am an observant. I like to observe people.

I've always been a keen observer of people.

The eyes are so telling. That's how you engage with people and bond with them. I love direct, strong eye contact.

I love to people watch.

William Regal once told us he people-watched when he was in the ring. He would see things that people would do. And if they annoyed him, chances are they would annoy someone else. A lot of times I'll just people watch when I'm traveling or at the airport or living everyday life.

According to my parents, I've always liked to tune into the conversations of others. But rather than hope for a snippet of salacious gossip, it has always been the words themselves that I wanted to understand.

I am still very observant. I am absorbed by people and why they do what they do.

The one thing that robots really find difficult to do is to look someone in the eye and have a sense of how they're feeling. We should be teaching that in schools.

In apartments and cottages, on the street and in the train... I listen... More and more, I turn into one large ear, always turning to another person.

It's my job to look at other people's humanity and it's my job to, 24/7, look at my life and listen to everything everyone says, watching their faces, the little idiosyncratic aspects of human beings - it's like a sponge, I take it in.

You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?