Social Skills Quotes:

Genuine confidence is a way of thinking about yourself and your abilities. Confidence is your perception of your own potential; it's a kind of long-term thinking that powers you through the obstacles and tough times, helping you solve problems and putting you in the way of success. Your confidence is quite a separate matter from your social skills.

- John Eliot

source: John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.139, Diversion Books

topic: Thinking About You, Skills, Long, Social Skills, Long Term

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

topic: Skills, Giving, People, Social Skills

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

- Joe Morgan

source: "Joe Morgan's daughter stars as Stanford gymnast" by Tom FitzGerald, www.sfgate.com. March 24, 2010.

topic: Believe, Skills, People, Social Skills

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

- Daniel Goleman

source: "Sociability: It's all in your mind". Interview with Sharon Jayson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 24, 2006.

topic: Emotional, Skills, Empathy, Social Intelligence, Social Skills

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.

- Vincent Nichols

source: "Archbishop Vincent Nichols voices fears over social networking sites". www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2009.

topic: Skills, Community, Important, Social Skills, Life And Living

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

topic: Years, Skills, Long, Social Skills, Learning Language

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

topic: Children, School, Skills, Social Skills, Child Care

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

topic: Children, Errors, Skills, Social Skills

You know, you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And it’s forced me to address that.

- Anthony Minghella

topic: Skills, Long, Addresses, Social Skills

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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Stars, Night, Rocks, Social Skills, Every Night

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

topic: Skills, Two, People, Social Skills, One On One

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

- W. C. Fields

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Dazzle, Bulls, Brilliance, Social Skills, Funny Bumper Sticker

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

topic: Tired, Character, Thinking, Social Skills

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

topic: Strong, Skills, Personality, Social Skills, Physically Fit

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

source: "Why should any teacher ever vote Tory?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2010.

topic: Children, School, Play, Social Skills, Schooling

A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.

- Howard Rheingold

topic: Technology, Play, Skills, Social Skills

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

source: Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

topic: Fall, Skills, Fit, Social Skills

Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.

- Susan Cain

topic: Strong, Party, Home, Social Skills, Introversion

I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.

- Ernest Cline

source: Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.34, Macmillan

topic: Real, Self Esteem, Kids, Social Skills

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

topic: Skills, People, Effort, Social Skills

Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration.

- Daniel H. Wilson

topic: Cute, Children, Skills, Social Skills, Carnegie Mellon

Playing the sport has taught me about teamwork and how to be a good team player, social skills and most importantly, dedication.

- P. K. Subban

source: Source: www.automobilenews.net

topic: Sports, Teamwork, Player, Social Skills, Team Player

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

topic: Artist, Skills, Luck, Social Skills

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

topic: Girl, Boys, Self, Social Skills, Self Loathing

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

source: "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking". Book by Susan Cain, January 24, 2012.

topic: Strong, Party, Home, Social Skills, Introversion

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

- Helen Fielding

topic: Men, Skills, Social, Social Skills

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

source: Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. July 23, 2007.

topic: Thinking, Guitar, Skills, Social Skills

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

topic: Smart, Book, Skills, Social Skills

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

topic: School, Skills, Chess, Social Skills

By looking at autistic kids, you can't tell when you're working with them who you're going to pull out, who is going to become verbal and who's not. And there seem to be certain kids who, as they learn more and more, they get less autistic acting, and they learn social skills enough so that they can turn out socially normal.

- Temple Grandin

topic: Kids, Skills, Acting, Social Skills

The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We don’t even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, “What are you trying to teach me?” Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for “False Evidence Appearing Real.” From Everything Belongs, p. 143

- Richard Rohr

topic: Real, Simple, Emotional, Social Skills, Acronyms

Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting stuff that doesn't interest us. We edit the world; we select from menus; we pick and choose; our social 'group' focuses on us and disintegrates without us. This makes it rather confusing for us when we step outdoors and discover that other people's behaviour can't be deleted with a simple one-stroke command or dragged to the trash icon.

- Lynne Truss

topic: Simple, Skills, Icons, Social Groups, Social Skills

Friends serve central functions for children that parents do not, and they play a critical role in shaping children's social skills and their sense of identity. . . . The difference between a child with close friendships and a child who wants to make friends but is unable to can be the difference between a child who is happy and a child who is distressed in one large area of life.

- Zick Rubin

topic: Children, Play, Skills, Social Skills, Close Friendship

If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Children, Trying, Grows, Social Skills

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

source: Arika Okrent (2009). “In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language”, p.5, Spiegel & Grau

topic: Color, Skills, Tangled, Social Skills, Breathtaking

I always say, once I get in a room, I can sell myself just fine. I know that not everyone who has a disability has the social skills or cognitive skills that I do, and it may be harder for them to navigate through.

- Zach Anner

topic: Skills, May, Rooms, Social Skills

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

topic: Children, Mean, Thinking, Social Skills

Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.

- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

topic: Animal, Men, Skills, Social Skills, Ethical Behavior

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

source: Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

topic: Dance, Communication, Skills, Social Skills

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

topic: Teamwork, Business, Kids, Social Skills, Teamwork And Leadership

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

source: James Gleick (1992). “Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman”, Pantheon

topic: Player, Skills, Mad, Social Skills

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

topic: Nice, Skills, Careers, Social Skills

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

- Karen Chance

source: Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.1203, Penguin

topic: Cat, Skills, Looking Good, Social Skills, Hummingbirds

Play for young children is not recreation activity, It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity. Play is thinking time for young children. It is language time. Problem-solving time. It is memory time, planning time, investigating time. It is organization-of-ideas time, when the young child uses his mind and body and his social skills and all his powers in response to the stimuli he has met.

- James L Hymes

topic: Children, Memories, Thinking, Social Skills

I'd read an enormous amount but had spent so much time in my own head that I didn't have extensive social skills. Suddenly I was in this world where I was surrounded by these incredibly polished and wealthy kids who had gone to prep schools, and I felt daunted by them. I don't think people were aware of how full of anxiety I was... For a long time I felt like I was living in a place where I shouldn't have been.

- Dan Chaon

source: Interview with Molly Antopol, therumpus.net. September 15th, 2009.

topic: School, Kids, Thinking, Social Skills

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

topic: Strong, Skills, Names, Social Skills, Strong Work Ethic

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

topic: Kids, Son, Skills, Social Skills

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

topic: Children, Passion, Self Confidence, Social Skills, True Passion

I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring.

- Daniel Johns

topic: Want, Boring, Social, Social Skills

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

source: "The Secret Origins Of Professional Cosplayer Yaya Han". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. March 14, 2013.

topic: Teenager, Skills, Parent, Social Skills, Supervision