Interpersonal Awareness Quotes

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

Rose: You have a gift Jack, you do. You see people. Jack: I see you. Rose: And? Jack: You wouldn't have jumped.

When you work with people for a long time, you start to sense what they are thinking without having to communicate explicitly.

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

I feel and take in people's energy. Sometimes, I feel the pain of other people.

The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment.

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.

A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.

People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.

Neurotics are awfully quick to notice other people's mentalities.

I learned to observe other people - that’s sort of what it teaches you. To pay attention. Which can also be a really natural human skill so I don’t think I’m better equipped than other human beings.

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

Before two human beings come in close physical contact, their auras have mingled; that is the reason why we 'feel the presence of another' at times before we become aware of him by means of our ordinary senses.

I used my captors' names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.

The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.

Granted, everybody is different, but I think it's real important to know all the people that you are around, and how they operate their history, and things like that. You know where they are coming from a little bit, and you don't insult them, or take something for granted.

Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.

In addition to impartiality and honesty, people engaged in good offices must have the gift of good timing and a flawless sense of balance.

I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.

What a strange phrase — –not seeing other people. As if it’s been constructed to be a lie. We see other people all the time. The question is what we do about it.