If you really want to be able to express what goes on with other people, you have to be able to look at them and empathize with them and not judge who they are and what they do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.
I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if I was in your position, this is how I would see it.'
You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that.
I think you have to be respectful to the people who want to talk to you.
You've got to be who you are. You've got to be honest with people. If your views change on something, you've got to be willing to express it.
It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.
I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.
In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.