“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.” PeopleThinkingSocialSkillsPicksGuitarCommunicateSocial Skills Author:Ryan Adams
“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.” PeopleHumansBookSocialBrainSucceedSkillsSmartConceptsChessHuman SocietyCalculusKidneysSocial Skills Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“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.” PeopleKnowsSeemsSocialEffortFailingHonestSkillsUnusualRationalitySocial Skills Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“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.” ChildrenPlaySchoolSocialEnvironmentMastersSkillsWarmCriticalAttractiveFormalSpend TimeSchoolingSocial Skills Author:Michael Gove
“I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.” PeopleBelieveI BelieveSocialSkillsMixingSocial Skills Author:Joe Morgan
“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.” FeelsSelfGirlSocialPoorBoysSkillsInvisibleRejectedInabilityLoathingSelf LoathingSocial Skills Author:Warren Farrell
“Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.” LooksSocialEmotionalSkillsEmpathyEmotional IntelligenceSocial SkillsInterpersonalSocial Intelligence Author:Daniel Goleman
“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.” WantChildrenPlaySocialParentDifferencesRolesIdentitySkillsAreasFunctionCriticalClose FriendsSocial SkillsClose Friendship Author:Zick Rubin
“Although adults have a role to play in teaching social skills to children, it is often best that they play it unobtrusively. In particular, adults must guard against embarrassing unskilled children by correcting them too publicly and against labeling children as shy in ways that may lead the children to see themselves in just that way.” WayMayChildrenPlaySocialRolesTeachingParticularSkillsAdultsShyEmbarrassingCorrectingLabelingSocial Skills Author:Zick Rubin
“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.” ChildrenSocialSkillsAdultsStrategyErrorsTrialsAcquireInteractionTrial And ErrorSocial Skills Author:Zick Rubin
“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.” EnoughSeemsKidsCertainTurnsSocialActingSkillsNormalAutisticSocial Skills Author:Temple Grandin