Randall Robinson Quotes

I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

If you worry less about what people think of you, you can pick up an astonishing amount of information about them. You no longer leave conversations wondering what just happened. Other people's minds and motives are finally revealed.

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

Indeed, I am repeatedly astonished by the number of really good writers who understand human beings so well on paper but don't know how to deal with them in real life.

I think reading a room - reading the personalities, reading body language - is kind of a lost art.

I'd make a good psychiatrist. I can work people out very easily and very quickly. I've been like that since childhood.

I know when people are with me or not. It's an instinct.

Sometimes I feel a bit socially disconnected in terms of being a little bit gullible about how people interrelate emotionally.

I feel like I can get a good feel for people.

I understand how to read people, and nurture them and guide them, and let them be free to do what they want to do.

If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are

If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake.

Sometimes I get this gut feeling about people - maybe I sense a hidden agenda or that they care for the money more than the message. I wish that I'd listen to that feeling instead of waiting for the truth to rear its ugly head. I'm a smart girl. I'm loyal. But sometimes I'm too loyal. I'm not loyal enough to myself.

I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.

The ability to understand people is one of the greatest assets anyone can ever have.

There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all kinds of stuff, but if you're really bad with people, if you're really naive or aggressive and push people away, if you don't know the political environment you're in, it invalidates all the things you know. You're not going to get anywhere.

If I point to anything that makes me who I am, it's that I have a whole lot of common sense. I've got a good mind and a good ability to read people and situations.

The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

We lack social awareness because we're so focused on what we're going to say next - and how what other people are saying affects us - that we completely lose sight of other people. This is a problem because people are complicated. You can't hope to understand someone until you focus all of your attention in his or her direction.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

I can feel things - tap into emotions. When I meet a new person, I know their life straight away. I suppose you could call it a special intuition, but it's my number one quality, and I'm always 99.9 percent right. If I don't like someone, it always turns out to be for a good reason.