Social Situations Quotes

#1. Introversion and shyness are not synonymous. Introversion is a natural personality trait where we go inside ourselves to process our experiences. Shyness, on the other hand, is a condition marked by fear or extreme anxiety in social situations.

Adam S. McHugh

#2. People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone
by teasing, for example.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. I was very ill at ease with people in social situations, and I realized that if I photographed I wouldn't have to chat.

Martine Franck

#4. I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

Tony Kushner

#5. For a much lauded writer, I'm not terribly self-absorbed. In social situations, which are difficult for me - I mean, this is an interview - I'm normally uncomfortable talking about myself.

James Ellroy

#6. Writers like to feel sorry for themselves, which is easy to do in private, but when called on to feel sorry for ourselves in social situations, we will often do so by sharing terrible book tour stories.

Jonathan Dee

#7. He was a dork, but at least he was totally comfortable in social situations, like Dad. Comfortable, or oblivious, which amounted to the same thing.

Jennifer Echols

#8. I'm really interested in kind of weird social situations and cliques, watching girls vying for attention, watching how the popularity thing happens. I've always thought too hard about everything.

Lorde

#9. Whereas children can learn from their interactions with their parents how to get along in one sort of social hierarchy
that of the family
it is from their interactions with peers that they can best learn how to survive among equals in a wide range of social situations.

Zick Rubin

#10. I'm not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying 'Hi' is going to be even more difficult because they won't know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#11. Girls are generally recognized as superior mimics. Those with [Asperger's Syndrome] hold back and observe until they learn the 'rules', then imitate their way through social situations.

Tony Attwood

#12. I am totally amazed at the spread of interest in meditation. When I first came back from studying in India in 1974, I would be asked in social situations what I did. When I replied, "I teach meditation" they would frequently look at me as though to say "That is weird," and sort of sidle away.

Sharon Salzberg

#13. Let's Talk is a practical guide that will greatly help young
adults at the workplace to navigate through unforeseen and
vulnerable social situations. Harsh Goenka

Mukta Mahajani

#14. Reciprocal marketing, promotions and links. In public good experiments, behavioral economists have demonstrated that the potential for reciprocal actions by players increases the rate of contribution to the public good, providing evidence for the importance of reciprocity in social situations.

Carl William Brown

#15. I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.

John Dewey

#16. Social situations, for me - it's very natural for me to be an observer. That's where I'm most comfortable. I observe things.

Ray Lamontagne

#17. Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.

Brian Molko

#18. I am actually a very unspeaking person. I'm not really good in social situations. People expect me to be more outgoing. I don't know why. They think I have this kind of assurance.

Charlotte Rampling

#19. When I'm in social situations I always hold onto my glass. It makes me feel comfortable and secure, and I don't have to shake hands

Larry David

#20. I never had a problem with social situations. A lot of times, when people are in school, they can have a little hesitancy because people are mean sometimes. I never had that problem because I never had that experience. So, I had a pretty easy transition.

Britt Robertson

#21. I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.

Gary Numan

#22. It was as if some manual was handed out one day, a manual of instructions about complicated social situations. But I wasn't there the day they handed it out. The worst part was, nobody even told me it was distributed. It was like, they kept it secret from me.

John J. Siefring

#23. The things we sing about are timeless. Political affairs and social situations come and go. But if you're singing about empowerment and not playing by the rules, you can sing about them until you can't sing anymore.

Paul Stanley

#24. Life is a game of common sense. You can know all the data that the encyclopedia holds, but if you can't apply it to social situations and day to day events, you're on the same rank as someone with no data at all.

Zack W. Van

#25. In social situations I still feel scared. My best friend and husband give me the freedom to be myself.

Susannah Constantine

#26. My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.

Talib Kweli

#27. People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations.

Daniel Kahneman

#28. I bet if I spent less time with the television and more time pursuing activities that enhance my life and expand my knowledge, I won't freeze up in business or social situations.

Jen Lancaster

#29. I am super awkward at social situations in general, and there's some major stuff going down, so I'm not going to hold to any sort of societal standard, and I'm just going to pretend like we've known each other long enough to say what's on our mind, and I hope that's okay.

Myra McEntire

#30. I am not as confident as the characters I play. I am a bit aloof. I am uncomfortable in social situations.

Anushka Sharma

#31. Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect to the human race through song makes me feel less alien.

Lindi Ortega

#32. In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.

Bae Doona

#33. I'd get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out.

Johnny Depp

#34. [ ... ] thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.

Terence McKenna

#35. I am still unsure of what 'life to the fullest' for me would be, mostly i just try to be well-liked in social situations and not die

Megan Boyle

#36. I am a pretty good actor. Most of my friendships are based on the fact that I pretend to be outgoing and funny in social situations, but when I get home, I tend to isolate myself because I am actually somewhat bipolar and introverted.

Reese Roper

#37. I don't get intimidated. When I'm on set, I never really get intimidated by people. But in social situations, it's weird sometimes. You don't want to seem like you're kissing somebody's ass because they're a celebrity.

Jeremy Luke

#38. We live in a culture where everyone's opinion, view, and assessment of situations and people spill across social media, a lot of it anonymously, much of it shaped by mindless meanness and ignorance.

Mike Barnicle

#39. 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

Lance Reddick

#40. Meanwhile, the empty forms of social behavior survive inappropriately in business situations. We all know that when a business sends its customers 'friendly reminders,' it really means business.

Judith Martin

#41. The use of powerful systematic reward procedures to promote increased engagement in target activities may also produce concomitant decreases in task engagement, in situations where neither tangible nor social extrinsic rewards are perceived to be available.7

Alfie Kohn

#42. Another study notes about Bali: "Babies are encouraged to acquire quickly the capacity to sleep under any circumstances, including situations of high stimulation, musical performances, and other noisy observances which reflect their more complete integration into adult social activities." As

Sebastian Junger

#43. I live in a mind melt of different situations, through my work and social life - I wouldn't have it any other way.

Gemma Cairney

#44. There is no real bravery in getting paid to save someone's life. However, there is a large amount of bravery in a nurse break dancing at the hospital's Christmas party.

Shannon L. Alder

#45. As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.

Jonathan Coe

#46. In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.

Harold Rosenberg

#47. Only if we understand why and how certain kinds of economic controls tend to paralyze the driving forces of a free society, and which kinds of measures are particularly dangerous in this respect, can we hope that social experimentation will not lead us into situations none of us want.

Friedrich Hayek

#48. We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't recognize or acknowledge the power of messages and how deeply affected we all are by the messages we receive from the media.

Aloe Blacc

#49. As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the fact that my mother was always discussing things with my sister and me - also because I read a lot.

Tracy Chapman

#50. All social groups groups make rules and attempt, at some times and under some circumstances, to enforce them. Social rules define situations and the kinds of behavior appropriate to them, specifying some actions as "right" and forbidding others as "wrong".

Howard S. Becker

#51. Mind as a concrete thing is precisely the power to understand things in terms of the use made of them; a socialized mind is the power to understand them in terms of the use to which they are turned in joint or shared situations. And mind in this sense is the method of social control.

John Dewey

#52. Every clinical encounter is an opportunity to generate social capital. Even in situations where patient needs are complex or seemingly insurmountable, it is the empathy and goodwill which makes the difference.

Tony Tan

#53. The way you react to challenging situations will say a lot about you. Actually, it will make or break your business.

Cendrine Marrouat

#54. It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally formulated) which force the consideration of the role of ethics, of the dynamics of social structure, and of social structure and of individual psychology in situations of conflict.

Anatol Rapoport

#55. This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#56. I definitely have an alter ego that can come out and get me out of situations where I'm having social anxiety. I can take a deep breath and create a bubble so I can perform in some way.

Lindy Booth

#57. I don't know what's worse, being ignored or stared at.

Renata Suerth

#58. My whole background as a social worker has allowed me to understand human behavior in difficult situations. Working in Kenya, I see the most desperate situations - things I could never believe possible - and then have to try to find solutions.

Eric Walters