Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry. — Pittacus of Mytilene Copy Share Image
We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Extraverts ... cannot understand life until they have lived it. Introverts ... cannot live life until they understand it. — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope. — Florence King Copy Share Image
There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were,… — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Copy Share Image
My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work. — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Coffee is a product favouring sociability, friendship, and conversation and it should always be consumed with someone else. — Ernesto Illy Copy Share Image
“verbal fluency and sociability are the two most important predictors of success, according to a Stanford Business School study.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“We are born to talk to other people, ... we are born to be sociable and to sit together with others in… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide - sometimes from… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I was very inventive. I lived in my own world - my dad said I was a loner. Not lonely, just happy… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
We all have a personal recipe for productivity. One person may need six cups of autonomy and just a pinch of collaboration.… — Neil Blumenthal Copy Share Image
The need for sociability induce man to be in touch with his fellow men. However, this need might not ("ne saurait", Fr.)… — African Spir Copy Share Image
When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“One’s desire to be alone, biologists have found, is partially genetic and to some degree measurable. If you have low levels of… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“When you are alone in the wilderness, opinions or beliefs of any kind are dropped as the absurd accoutrements they are. But… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“[Emilio’s dinner with FM Banier] Gradually I abandon the conversation (suffering because the others might suppose I am doing so for reasons… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“Thirteen Recurrent Domains of Human Concerns: Possible Breakdowns 1. BODY: health, sickness, injury, availability and unavailability for meetings and appointments. 2. PLAY… — Fernando Flores Copy Share Image
¢Your name of Bri creates a passive, friendly, easy-going nature, but your desire for sociability and the pleasant things in life makes… — Brianna Ramos Copy Share Image
Technology was once a substitute for dealing with people, but today it is at the heart of sociability. — Mark Penn Copy Share Image
No matter what I do with my life, or how successful I am, I will always be a socially awkward penguin inside. — Wil Wheaton Copy Share Image
There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“compatriots needed to weave into the social fabric bakeries close to home or bread trucks that deliver; like a sort of societal… — Steven Laurence Kaplan Copy Share Image
The real amateur of wine can only enjoy it along with friends, sharing with them the art of conversation and the art… — Jean Drapeau Copy Share Image
My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock… — Louis Pullig De Gouy Copy Share Image