Miranda Raison Quotes

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that.

My agenda... is to learn about people.

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

The best way to know people is to work with them.

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

It's in my blood to be around people while I was training.

What makes us really, truly successful over the long term has a ton to do with our social interactions and the influence we do or don't have with other people.

One of the things I love about this job is meeting different people.

I love to learn about people.

Dating is a place to practice how to relate to other people.

I'm proud of my ability to understand what somebody else is trying to do and help them achieve it, because part of the aesthetic of improvisation is service. You never say no. Serve the servant, follow the follower. And that's very valuable in your life, as well as very valuable in your actor's work. I'm damn proud of my ability to help other people achieve their ideas.

When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

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.

[The biggest lesson I've got is] Learning to have patience with people, just take it one step at a time in everything that you're doing and just invest time in the people that you're with ... have patience with them, even if they're not necessarily the easiest person to work with.

I spend most of my life just listening to people.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.

Do you value people who won't benefit you or only those who might contribute in some way to your success? Great team players truly value others as people, and they know and relate to what others value.

There is so much to be learned from listening to people's hopes, frustrations, and points of view

Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.