Tina Fey Quotes

Many people with autism struggle with reading nonverbal cues and acting on them. When you lose that ability to understand and process nonverbal cues, you're at a huge disadvantage socially.

I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.

My theory is that the female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy, and that the male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.

Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.

I hate people.

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.

All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. It's a negotiation tool.

People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.

Working with different people anyway is like life and meeting different people... as long as you can be empathetic, you can take a bit of them on and see what you can do to help their process. That said, my relationship with Woody Allen was trying to hang on his every word so that I could tell everybody what he said afterwards. But certainly, he was a very good example of somebody who you didn't hear talk above a very low volume for the entire time he was on-set.

Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

I spend most of my life just listening to people.

I don't know how to make people like me. Cinna, how do you make people like you?

It so difficult to know what the people we love really need.

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

I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.

If you wish particularly to gain the good graces and affection of certain people, men or women, try to discover their most striking merit, if they have one, and their dominant weakness, for every one has his own, then do justice to the one, and a little more than justice to the other.

The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

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

I'm engaged: I'm interested in other people. I think that's just as important as knowing how to do the job.

I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.

I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. It's also taught me about getting into an environment with new people and acting like you've known them forever.

I'm not good at confrontation. I know my strengths. I like company. And I am not a great arguer... I do find it much easier talking to people I like about things we both like.