Diane von Furstenberg Quotes

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.

O, would some Power give us, To see ourselves as others see us!

I go through the same kind of situations as other people. I have to give that to people, because people have this facade, this mirage, this mirror about me.

If all people are encouraged to actually see who they're coexisting with, or even if they're not coexisting with other people.It's like to look at the world you're in.

You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.

It's just hard to look at yourself and guess how you're going to be perceived by other people sometimes. I do my best to let people know that I'm approachable, but I'm a human being just like anybody else. Sometimes people forget that. They forget that you're a person and they treat you like this celebrity thing. But I have to be patient with that, and I try to be.

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

I think I'm not always what I seem. Most people, when they get to know me, say, 'You know, when I first met you...' People initially think I'm a snob because I'm intensely private.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

I just think the more we're observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition.

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?'

The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

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 think of myself as kind of a hippy. Everyone around me says that's not the impression they get. They think I'm sassy. Apparently, I think I'm nicer than I really am.

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

One goes on with the blithe belief that who you really are is transparent to everybody. Then you realise, with some horror, that in fact it's not. So all you can do is keep muddying the waters a bit.

The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.

I always start out saying exactly what everybody looks like. I don't know why.

I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory.