38 Quotes About Socializing
- Author Oliver North
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Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
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- Author Bryan Caplan
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In a useful conversation... there is a double coincidence of wants. You have to be interested in what I have to say; I have to be interested in what you have to say. This is an important reason why people with conventional interests seem more socially intelligent. Even if they don't check whether their audience cares, it probably does.
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- Author Michael Bassey Johnson
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Don't let your teeth make you lose respect by permanently keeping them opened for the sake of being friendly.
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- Author Jerome K. Jerome
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One of the problems of social life is to know what to say to one another when we meet; every man and woman's desire is to appear sympathetic and clever, and this makes conversation difficult, because, taking us all round, we are neither sympathetic nor clever.
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- Author Penelope Lively
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It was not so much that he had anything against people in general, more that he saw no purpose in deliberately setting up occasions on which you stood around trying to think of something to say. Moreover, the whole process was self-perpetuating; the guest became the host in an act of social revenge and thus it was on for ever. The only sensible course was never to start it in the first place.
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- Author Monaristw
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Love comes first, life second, followed by inspiration and humor. Pick your subject of conversation accordingly.
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- Author Robert Harris
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This was the problem with drinks parties: getting stuck with a person you didn't want to talk to while someone you did was tantalisingly in view.
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- Author Karan Mahajan
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During these years in the small-talk wilderness, I also wondered why Americans valued friendliness with commerce so much. Was handing over cash the sacred rite of American capitalism—and of American life? On a day that I don’t spend money in America, I feel oddly depressed. It’s my main form of social interaction—as it is for millions of Americans who live alone or away from their families.
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- Author Criss Jami
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The introvert's anthem for not wanting to hang out is 'It's not you; it's me.
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