Lee Mack Quotes

Women's humor seems to be a little more supportive. It's just kind of trying to make the other one laugh through funny voices and kind of talking about other people. I respond to that. I feel less like I'm going to get beat up in a room full of women than I do in a room full of guys.

I've always got on with lads, more than I have with girls.

Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.

I've always gotten along with guys better.

Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out.

When two people are paying close attention to each other, check out the others in the group and see who's observing. Human dynamics are amazing, but so much that you might learn is subconscious interplay.

If someone wears something you like, you make comments on it. And if someone wears something we don't like, we make comments on it, too. That's just what guys do, what teammates do. Besides that, we don't really compete in that space.

I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.

There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen.

Culture is an output of a bunch of inputs that have to come together the right way. Specifically, it is the collision of people and their context, how they interact with each other in that context, and then how that context evolves based on those interactions as they multiply.

I assume that the proper study of interaction is not the individual and his psychology, but rather the syntactical relations among the acts of different persons mutually present to another.

I just want to have folks be comfortable and just share and have a good conversation. To me, that's kind of a lost art.

My preference for female company is based for the most part on the fact that women are more self-aware than men, in my experience.

It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication

Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wants was for them to listen.

Conversation is a game of circles.

What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.

You don't really see Asian men together very often. It's very rare in life.

Those who talk loudly are rarely listened to.

It's safe to talk openly and honestly with people because they're not really listening.

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

A personality is our way of being for others. We hope that others will meet us half way or more, gratify our needs, be our audience, soothe our fears.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!