Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

I have almost invariably found that charm is used as a substitute for intelligence in persons of both sexes. Thus, I have always been and will remain wary of it.

My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?

I think I am a pretty good at understanding each character of each person I meet.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

It's weird how you can make people feel comfortable, and then ask them an uncomfortable question, but it doesn't ruin their day.

I find people confusing.

My personality does well with people who are deemed difficult. I don't know why it does but I just seem to get along with them. The more difficult the better.

The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]

In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

I am blunt sometimes; I am diplomatic sometimes; I am all things in between. Abrasive, you know, I guess it's in the eye of the beholder.

As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.

The thing about narcissistic people is that they don't think they're being narcissistic.

I'm very interested in people, so if a character happens to be real, there's that much more to look at.

From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, "Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.

Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.

I spend most of my life just listening to people.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.

I grew up around people, so I know 'em, and I do like playin' 'em. I'm not religious, but I am kind of a spiritual fanatic, so maybe I understand them in that way.

You don't win with X's and O's. What you win with is people.

I'm not good with children," the god confessed. "Or people. Well, any organic life forms, really.