At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
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.
To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.
What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it.
I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me.
We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
How can one know anything at all about people?
Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.