Quotes About Social Skills

#1. I had been thinking for a while about how bored and tired I was of playing straight-down-the-middle everymanish characters that have what I call white guy problems. And I missed playing characters who lacked dignity and more importantly, lacked social skills.

Justin Long

#2. Introverts .. may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas,

Susan Cain

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

Daniel Goleman

#4. The best thing about where comedy is now is if you have a little bit of talent and a strong work ethic, and strong social skills, you can make a name for yourself and you can make money.

Donnell Rawlings

#5. Most normal boys, as they're growing up, they - in order to become attractive, they might, you know, get good at sports or join a rock band or develop good social skills, and for some reason, I thought that drawing comic books might be my route.

Adrian Tomine

#6. I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have.

Daniel Johns

#7. Er, um, well. Most of the things coming out of my mouth are sounds, not words. Seems you spend enough time by yourself dumpster diving, you forget basic
human social skills

Alexandra Bracken

#8. There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say that 'it takes more than intelligence to succeed in human society.' But social skills reside in the brain, not the kidneys.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#9. Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.

Judy Biggert

#10. Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation to the next.

Gerald Jonas

#11. Getting or giving anything is about social skills. The world is about being comfortable where you are and making people comfortable, and that's what social skills are

Penelope Trunk

#12. It's critical that children spend time before they arrive in school in a warm, attractive and inclusive environment, where they can learn through play, master social skills and prepare for formal schooling.

Michael Gove

#13. There is a perception that because individuals with autism have challenges in the area of communication and social skills, they are not interested in having friends. This is not so. Adults with autism may be socially isolated, but it is not always indicative of a preference for solitude.

Chantal Sicile-Kira

#14. Children, then, acquire social skills not so much from adults as from their interactions with one another. They are likely to discover through trial and error which strategies work and which do not, and later to reflect consciously on what they have learned.

Zick Rubin

#15. There are more social skills required to talk one-on-one [than to an audience]. You don't have to be socially fluid to talk to two thousand people.

Jerry Seinfeld

#16. For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.

Bob Newhart

#17. Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

James Gleick

#18. Sherlock's social skills are a disaster in three acts."

"What are the acts?"

"One: he takes a breath. Two: he opens his mouth. Three: he talks.

Eva Morgan

#19. The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

Gordon Ramsay

#20. What I've found in my career is that 70 to 75 percent of comics are nice and have some sense of social skills, but there are those who end up in comedy because they don't know how to socialize. I don't want to deal with that group.

Lewis Black

#21. That girl is just plain crazy," Chey said as she looped her arm through Arkadia's. 'I swear when they were handing out social skills she was still in the line for shoes.

Dzintra Sullivan

#22. A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.

Laura Wade

#23. He's got the charm of a rectal probe, and no social skills to speak of, so nobody wants to go for a drink with him. Let's face it, dogs have more to look forward to in later life - at least they can go to the park and roll in shit.

Christopher Fowler

#24. It can literally change someone's life; it's very positive for young teenagers to get into cosplay if they do it with their friends or with supervision from their parents - it can really foster their social skills.

Yaya Han

#25. Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.

Dustin Diamond

#26. They served to remind Cabal - should a reminder ever be necessary - why his social skills were so poor: people were loathsome and not worth the practise.

Jonathan L. Howard

#27. If you are really working on something intensely, your social skills fall away and you are not fit to be brought out into public.

Jay Cassidy

#28. I hate over-privileged people in general. You just happen to fall into that category. No offense. But Nykyrian said you weren't a total bitch so I'll trust him until you make him out a liar. (Hauk)
You seriously lack social skills, don't you? (Kiara)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#29. Emily squared her shoulders and said simply, "I'm fine, I'm not really loving your social skills though. Don't you know this is no way to start a conversation?" Emily's mouth clamped shut at the expression on the monsters face.

Nicole Rae

#30. You have no idea how to comfort anyone, do you? (Astrid)
In case you haven't noticed, princess, social skills aren't my forte. Hell, you're lucky I'm housebroke. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#31. That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise.

Ryan Adams

#32. I'm no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.

Helen Fielding

#33. I would never suggest to anyone that they drop school for chess. First of all even if you can make it in chess, your social skills need to be developed there.

Viswanathan Anand

#34. We'll show them that we're not just geeky freaks and obsessive nerds without any social skills.

Kevin Berry

#35. Well, certainly, even separate from what our culture is going through, kids have different personalities and different natural bents and skill sets that they seem to come pre-programmed with. One of my two sons is very athletic. The other one is into social skills and humor.

Alex Kendrick

#36. Kay wasn't looking for true love. It was embarrassing to admit, but she wasn't completely over her divorce. She just wanted an opportunity to take her social skills out for a spin every now and then. She needed to be sure Kay The Person, hadn't been completely overtaken by Kay The Mom.

Delora Dennis

#37. I absolutely hated high school. As a freshman, I was 5 feet tall and weighed 95 pounds ... When I got to high school, I had no social skills. Was I a nerd? More of a dork. Definitely not one of the popular kids.

Grant Show

#38. The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#39. The one prejudice it had proved hardest to root out of a society was the one towards people whose social skills were limited.

Alex Lamb

#40. I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs, but you don't see grown-ups hiding behind people. It just doesn't happen. I mean, not that often. People develop social skills over time.

Susan Cain

#41. I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

Joe Morgan

#42. I think we can really use magic in a way never attempted before to inspire these children, help rally their self-confidence and even help them develop social skills. This is a national effort, not just here in Las Vegas. I know we can give them a true passion.

Criss Angel

#43. I'm one of those introverts with well-honed social skills, and I have even danced on the occasional table, but I have felt sheer panic when my exhaustion precedes my exit. It's like the Cinderella story with a twist: I want to get out of there and into my duds before midnight - or ten, or eight.

Laurie A. Helgoe

#44. The variety of shape, pattern, and color found in the languages of the world is a testament to the wonder of nature, to the breathtaking array of possibilities that can emerge, tangled and wild, from the fertile human endowments of brain and larynx, intelligence and social skills.

Arika Okrent

#45. He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird

Karen Chance

#46. I was in a band in Auckland, and I remember they all hated me. They had a big intervention. They said, basically, 'Gin, we think you suck.' I was miserable. I cried and cried. But looking back, that taught me about social skills and how to communicate with musicians.

Gin Wigmore

#47. I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.

Daniel Tammet

#48. I had my doubts at first. You were an out-of-shape man with low self-esteem and underdeveloped social skills. Now you are an in-shape man with low self-esteem and underdeveloped social skills.

Wesley Chu

#49. All the deep-diving studies show that women are superior for submerged operations. They're physically smaller and consume less nutrients and air, they have better social skills and tolerate close quarters better, and they are physiologically tougher and have better endurance.

Michael Crichton

#50. With success it's like 60% talent, maybe 20% luck and then 20% being at the right place at the right time. There are so many artists that have been passed by - even though, on paper, they're the most incredibly talented artists, they don't have the social skills to take it outside of the bedroom.

Seth Troxler

#51. It talked about the isolation felt by gifted young people whose social skills could not keep up with their intellects and who were often ostracized.

Dan Brown

#52. You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

Anthony Minghella

#53. Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

Warren Farrell

#54. Citizen activists look in the mirror, see what they're really good at and then apply their talents to solving social problems. It's skills-based volunteering.

Jonathan Tisch

#55. Humans become human through intense learning not just of survival skills but of customs and social mores, kinship and social laws-that is, culture.

Richard Leakey

#56. The principal factor promoting historically significant social change is contact with strangers possessing new and unfamiliar skills.

Thomas L. Friedman

#57. While others are broadcasting be listening

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#58. I believe in solving social ills with business skills.

Richie Norton

#59. Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.

Jonathan Gottschall

#60. One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.

Margaret Beckett

#61. We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

Charles Stross

#62. IQ is a measure, to some degree, of innate ability. But social savvy is knowledge. It's a set of skills that have to be learned. It has to come from somewhere, and the place where we seem to get these kinds of attitudes and skills is from our families.

Malcolm Gladwell

#63. In these story telling moments we equip our children, with crucial solution tools for life. To deprive them of these necessary teachable moments is like denying a carpenter the tools of his trade.

Drexel Deal

#64. A huge part of what a kid learns when they're growing up is social and emotional development. As adults, we take it for granted that other people have emotions that are different from ours, and we can identify what they are, but those are skills that children have to learn.

Tim Schafer

#65. Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.

Brenda Laurel

#66. I think we need to rethink a lot of business skills. In finance, for example, social impact bonds are potentially a way of providing capital for investments that save the public money in a context in which government often doesn't invest in things that would save it money.

Nicholas Kristof

#67. I'd never been great at meeting people. I wasn't shy or anything, It was only that sometimes, with new people, I didn't know how exactly to start a conversation. I liked to listen first. You could learn a lot about someone that way.

Robin Talley

#68. I believe that being able to communicate directly with readers is a boon. I certainly enjoy it as much as they do.

Sara Sheridan

#69. The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.

Emily James Smith Putnam

#70. Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making.

Richard Louv

#71. My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.

Daniel Goleman

#72. In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills ignored and denigrated, and experiencing development with a great sense of trauma, loss and social disconnectedness.

James Wolfensohn

#73. While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.

Dorothy Denning

#74. Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

Debbie Stabenow

#75. I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

Chris Hughes

#76. I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

Irvine Welsh

#77. Your LinkedIn profile must include keywords for specific skills that match your desired job.

Melanie Pinola

#78. When it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you'll learn to become great at your craft because you'll care so much about perfecting the skills necessary to make that dream a reality.

Adam Braun

#79. Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

Daniel Goleman

#80. There are myths about kids spending time online - that it is dangerous or making them lazy. But we found that spending time online is essential for young people to pick up the social and technical skills they need to be competent citizens in the digital age.

Mizuko Ito

#81. We are precarious. Which is to say some good things (accumulation of diverse
knowledges, skills and abilities through work and life experiences in permanent
construction), and a lot of bad ones (vulnerability, insecurity, poverty, social
exposure).

Lisa Adkins

#82. When I talk about "cyborg literacy," I mean a set of skills and social practices that optimize the ability to use physical and cognitive technologies to augment, amplify, or extend human thinking and communication capabilities.

Howard Rheingold

#83. Being with other people is hard for me, even when I love them. People have different ways of seeing and feeling, and things they like and things they don't, and trying to keep up with all of that- trying to keep another person happy all the time
can be exhausting.

Jane Devin

#84. Social thinking skills must be directly taught to children and adults with ASD. Doing so opens doors of social understandings in all areas of life.

Temple Grandin

#85. Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
- Bell Hooks

Win Quier

#86. If you say it very softly, with a smile, you can get away with saying almost anything, even the truth.

Neel Burton

#87. Dialogue isn't a competition to be the smartest or the most correct person in the room; it is a collaboration to find the truth.

Oli Anderson

#88. Social media is the future, with employers recognizing they need to start hiring people with the right skills.

Ryan Holmes