Room Dynamics Quotes

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Architects in planning rooms today have forgotten their faith in natural light. Depending on the touch of a finger to a switch, they are satisfied with static light and forget the endlessly changing qualities of natural light, in which a room is a different room every second of the day.

If you're in politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

I can't stand when I walk into a room and everyone's not talking to each other and just on their phones.

I'm quite scrutinous when it comes to who I put myself in the room with.

If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.

As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.

I'm obsessed with being able to dictate energy in a room.

I'm always fascinated by how different writers' rooms work.

Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.

I’m struck that there is one lesson I learned early and then relearned over and over: Trust is the coin of the realm. When trust was in the room, whatever room that was — the family room, the schoolroom, the locker room, the office room, the government room or the military room — good things happened. When trust was not in the room, good things did not happen.

To avoid discord, never put two wise people in the same room.

Stand-up comedians know how to walk into a room, even if you're not performing, just read the temperature of a room, and can easily sort of tell what's going on or what people are sort of feeling in the room, and it allows you to sort of approach people.

Be the optimist in the room.

As co-founder and CEO of an AI company, I am used to there not being many women in the room, especially in AI.

A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.

The smartest person in the room, is the room.

If you walk into a room that's bro'd up, and you're in power, bring more women into the room.

There's a scary moment when you realise you're no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you've been a successful young person. That's followed, of course, by the realisation that you're actually the oldest person in the room.

If you're entering a room for the first time, do it the way you would in life - look around; see how they have the furniture arranged. If your character is meeting another character for the first time, meet them the way you would in life.

The Colonel explained to me that 1. this was Alaska's room, and that 2. she had a single room because the girl who was supposed to be her roommate got kicked out at the end of last year, and that 3. Alaska had cigarettes, although the Colonel neglected to ask whether 4. I smoked, which 5. I didn't.

In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle, everyone's from Seattle. But in Vegas, you have six from Seattle, a bunch from L.A., some local Las Vegans and maybe a farmer from Iowa. In Vegas, you learn the ins and outs of holding a room because of that great spectrum of folks.

When people ask what I'd like to do next, the answer is usually, 'Something with people in rooms.'

As the stupidest person in the room, I always had the most to gain.

I just love any kind of language that can change the energy in a room. There are no limits for me, as long as it feels like it's being used in a particular way to garner or elicit a very particular reaction so that you can then use that reaction later for something else.