To truly lead one's people, one must also truly know them.
You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.
The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought.
You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.
If you keep marrying as I do, you learn everybody's hobby.
You have to know human behaviour … And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. You’ll never write above what you know about people.
Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people.
I like people, but to learn about one individual always appeals to me more than anything.
A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
Writers don't write about people they know. They write what they know about people.
People knowledge is much more important than mere product knowledge.
