Interpersonal Relation Quotes

They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people.

Friendship is something that is cultivated.

One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

All actual life is encounter.

I think it's important for people to stay human and remember that genuine human connection is more fulfilling than anything that technology has to offer. We all have it within us, and music is something that can bring that out of us.

A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle

Carole King is one of my dearest friends. We're like family.

I have learned to imagine an invisible sign around each person's neck that says 'Make me feel important.

To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

If you see yourself as entitled to a resource, and if you're not willing or incapable of seeing this other as a being with whom you can and should be in relation with, then you're going to take the resource.

The reason we like acting is connecting to other people.

I love meeting Israeli people. They look at me like a son