Talking To People Quotes

#1. (by researching, talking to people, etc.), and see which area not only fits well but also could pay off.

Kate White

#2. It was a big step, to go from not talking to people to stepping on to a stage. That's when I felt the most comfortable, because I could do anything I wanted to and say anything I wanted to, even if people didn't laugh.

Harry Shum Jr.

#3. In 2012, I started writing songs - not for the world to hear, but for certain people I needed to talk to. My family, we were not big communicators. I had a hard time talking to people in general.

Benjamin Booker

#4. To be in the dance bar you have to be young, good looking, able to dance, and comfortable talking to people.

Sonia Faleiro

#5. I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

Sally Ride

#6. Real dialogue isn't about talking to people who believe the same things as you.

Zygmunt Bauman

#7. When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

Taylor Swift

#8. But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.

Ted Rall

#9. Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life.

Kanye West

#10. Songwriters tend to make records instead of talking to people.

Sharleen Spiteri

#11. I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity,

Ben Goldacre

#12. I love talking to people and hearing their stories. Everyone's got their own story to tell, and when you sit down with someone and really talk to them, you can learn so much.

Dan Wells

#13. Daddy, I'm always in prayer because part of my brain, through the Holy Spirit, is in constant communication with Heaven [God]. My mouth is for talking to people.

Kevin Malarkey

#14. We work in this cave, and we speak to each other sort of subconsciously and with like, weird cues and tangential brother speak, but it really comes down to if you are the person who is moving amongst the actors and talking to people more, the other one can have a little more time to really watch.

Mark Duplass

#15. 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.

Michael Palin

#16. Nothing is more boring than talking to people who share my opinion anyway.

Yanis Varoufakis

#17. If I'm at somebody's house and they have magazines on the table and people are chatting, I feel almost a physical urge to start reading the magazines instead of talking to people.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#18. I greatly enjoyed working as a freelance journalist, because it gets you out of the house, and it gets you talking to people, but it wasn't satisfying all of my cravings, and I knew that I needed to work with the other side of my brain - the darker, murkier side!

Kevin Barry

#19. I'm talking to people all of the time. So it hasn't really had a big impact. Access is never my main concern anyway. If you keep digging and making phone calls you can get stories and not have to rely on the good graces of the Pentagon spokesperson. I am not in his good graces.

Michael Hastings

#20. Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

E.L. Doctorow

#21. Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying.

Pete Du Pont

#22. Sometimes that's the only way I exist, talking to people through pop culture.

Dev Hynes

#23. You can never solve a problem without talking to people with whom you disagree. The United States Senate is predicated and based on consensus building. That was certainly the vision of the founding fathers.

Olympia Snowe

#24. It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don't know what it is I do. Because half the time you're talking to people who are in their 20s, and I've been doing this for over 25 years.

Nathan Lane

#25. There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.

Chellie Pingree

#26. I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.

Dalia Mogahed

#27. It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.

Robin McKinley

#28. I'd much rather be playing songs than talking to people.

Ray Lamontagne

#29. There are very few interviews I turn down, because I really dig talking to people and hanging out.

Meredith Brooks

#30. I live by myself, which I love. In this industry, you're so often surrounded by people and busy and talking to people. It's kind of lovely when you get home to just chill out.

Douglas Booth

#31. We don't want anything from the government but that furtive little fellow called the truth - which, by the way, they'll never give you - which you have to go out and find by talking to people.

Morley Safer

#32. I have no skills. I mean, I can make jokes, I'm pretty good at talking to people on the Judge John Hodgman podcast. I can figure out what makes a pretty good story, and I can make eggs really well.

John Hodgman

#33. I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.

David Lloyd

#34. Standup keeps me grounded and keeps me in touch. I get to go from small towns to big cities, across Canada and the U.S., and you're out there and talking to people. You get a sense of what they respond to.

Howie Mandel

#35. Ideally, alcohol should be consumed in private. I dislike going to the pub, becoming jolly and ending up talking to people I would rather see injected with bleach.

Dave Franklin

#36. I don't like show business. I don't like the business. I love acting. I love this. I love talking to people.

Jeffrey Tambor

#37. I hated that I always felt sorry for people who hurt me. Sometimes I wished I were one of those people who held grudges for ten months and stopped talking to people who hurt me.

Marilyn Grey

#38. We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

Paul Farmer

#39. Conversation is a beautiful thing. When I was a younger guy, just wandering around talking to people was what kept me connected to the world.

Marc Maron

#40. I'm always talking to people. It's not that complicated. I just find somebody and say, "Do you have any ideas." If they do, we just start thinking things around.

Judd Apatow

#41. I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.

Cesar Chavez

#42. From the very beginning, I was involved in talking to people, listening to people. And it hasn't stopped. The idea was that people send me information; I'd ask them about it, listen, try to do something about it - and then ask for more feedback.

Craig Newmark

#43. My goal was becoming the next David Copperfield. I learned how to be a performer by emulating him as a kid - his formula of just talking to people onstage, being free to improvise, being charming and witty with a crowd, together with great, beautiful magic.

Michael Carbonaro

#44. I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#45. Stop talking to people about what you will do; show them instead what your are doing.

Robert Holden

#46. I've been talking to people, and I've gone to hospitals, talked to survivors, to doctors, to caregivers. I just learned that there's really no one way for somebody to experience dealing with cancer.

Italia Ricci

#47. There's a little burst of creativity being director followed by lots and lots of meetings and talking to people and more meetings. It's scary. And I can't believe anybody actually lets me do it. But it's going well so far.

Timothy Miller

#48. I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you're doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.

Barbara Bush

#49. In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.

Trey Parker

#50. My accent gets more pronounced when I've been talking to people from Derry.

Roma Downey

#51. As a pastor, I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.

Andy Stanley

#52. He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that other have done for you.

Margaret Atwood

#53. Warily, she dares to allow me a smile. "It's okay. It's just ... I'm not too good at talking to people." She looks away again as her shyness smothers her. "So, do you think it'd be all right if we don't talk?

Markus Zusak

#54. But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.

Eriq La Salle

#55. I've always loved teaching and reading and talking to people, and my grandfather was a professor.

Sarah Parcak

#56. Talking to people who are different from us can be radically transformative. It's the antidote to fear.

Kio Stark

#57. We all have that one friend who is either on a road-trip or planning a road-trip or thinking about a road-trip or talking to people who are on road-trip or posting quotes about road-trip.

Crestless Wave

#58. Obviously I love doing newsmaker interviews, and if I can contribute in any way to that, I would love to. I love reporting, getting out in the field and talking to people about various issues.

Katie Couric

#59. We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly. So primitive and naive. Not like our religions. We have burning bushes talking to people and guys walking on water. We're ... sophisticated.'

Paul Provenza

#60. When I was 6 I became the poster child for my hospital and would go to banquets and make speeches. I did not get stage fright and I actually enjoyed talking to people of all ages.

Atticus Shaffer

#61. You can't just walk away when somebody recognizes you. You have to take some time out and talk to them. It's not a waste of time - I just love talking to people. And I don't do this to sell records. The truth is, I do what I do because I love it.

Kenny G

#62. I've had terrible, terrible, terrible shows where I just thought, "That was off-key" or I forgot lines or I thought I looked like an idiot, and then you're leaving and talking to people, and they're like, "I had the best time of my life! That was amazing!" You just never know.

Babatunde Adebimpe

#63. I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.

Yo-Yo Ma

#64. There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

Jessa Crispin

#65. I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

Bob Woodward

#66. Once you start talking to people, you find out there's a lot more wrestling fans than you think there are.

John Darnielle

#67. If you spend seventy-two hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter.

P. J. O'Rourke

#68. In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.

Louis Kronenberger

#69. I mean, I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.

Hillary Clinton

#70. You spend all this time inside, alone, writing. And then it becomes about travel and new places and new people. And I do love talking to people about the book, but ideally, I like a little less disruptive lifestyle, I like it when things are more organized.

Garance Dore

#71. If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.

P. J. O'Rourke

#72. Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.

Martine Franck

#73. Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.

Haruki Murakami

#74. Talking to adults is bearable; it's talking to people my age that's impossible.

Tabitha Suzuma

#75. A figure in Los Angeles politics for five decades, my mother nevertheless had had her fill of talking to people by the time she came home at night.

Janet Fitch

#76. I'm not great at talking to people. I have all these thoughts bunching up inside my head and then they come out like a dam bursting or something. I'm sorry.

Roland Merullo

#77. I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent of celebrity autobiographies are ghostwritten?

John Cleese

#78. When I read about how 200 people died on a polar expedition, I wonder why they didn't get to know the Inuit people who were around and presumably know something about surviving in the Arctic after living there for thousands of years. Talking to people is a survival mechanism.

Tim Cahill

#79. Why should going into a firefight, charging into an enemy station filled with people and automatic systems built to kill you, seem less frightening than talking to people who you shipped with for weeks?

James S.A. Corey

#80. I enjoy talking to young people, and talking to people about helping young people. That part is not a chore. It's pretty fun, and something I like to do because I think it's important.

Tony Dungy

#81. I was not a great bartender, but I did OK. I wasn't great at being efficient behind the bar, but I was pretty great at talking to people. I was a pretty good waiter. It was painstaking to get me to care about the clientele of some of these places I was working at.

Jack Falahee

#82. I spend an awful lot of time just thinking about what is going on in the world and talking to people about that. It's probably one of my default social activities, just getting dinners with friends.

Peter Thiel

#83. I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.

Paul McGann

#84. I mean I certainly like when I'm like talking to people I'm like what did you think, what did you think, what did you think? You know that's always in the back of my head.

Nicholas Stoller

#85. I give people style tips in Whole Foods. Wherever I go, people want to ask me questions all the time, and I'm more than happy to answer them. I love talking to people.

Brad Goreski

#86. I was a standup comic, which doesn't necessarily mean you interact with people all that much. In fact when I did shows, I wouldn't talk to the audience very much. Then my friend offered me a radio show, and I thought, you know, I'll try talking to people and see what kind of interviewer I was.

Scott Aukerman

#87. I usually can be more honest writing songs than actually talking to people.

Joshua Radin

#88. The main thing that I loved about living alone was the silence. Sometimes simply talking to people was like listening to white noise. Often I could tune the sound out and be all right, but other times it was like hearing nails on a chalkboard - almost painful.

Adrianne Brooks

#89. I was an old tackle riding around talking to people about sports. Like I've said to a lot of people over the years, 'I only go where old tackles go, and if an old tackle does not belong there, I'm not going.'

John Madden

#90. And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'

Ian MacKaye

#91. I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox.

Robin Leach

#92. But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

Steven Soderbergh

#93. I do like talk shows. I'm interested in talking to people.

Joy Behar

#94. Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.

Asa Butterfield

#95. I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.

Barbara Amiel

#96. When you're talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you're talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their own right. People want to know how their brains work.

Jim Rash

#97. I all of a sudden got to feeling like talking to people. Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean. I'm weird like that.

Haruki Murakami

#98. The other mothers, the teachers, the people. I didn't realize that having a child was so social. You're always talking to people.

Liane Moriarty

#99. I don't like talking to people I KNOW, but strangers, I have no problem with.

Larry David

#100. When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.

Brendan Behan