Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.
Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.
One of the illusions that we live by is that we can really know anybody else, and we're often surprised by traits in people that we thought we knew very well. The struggle to overcome loneliness, which is sort of our universal burden, leads us to leap to conclusions about who other people are.
We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.
I think I'm at a place where I haven't really been encountered by anyone overtly strange. But people think they know me.
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.