I'd never been great at meeting people. I wasn't shy or anything, It was only that sometimes, with new people, I didn't know how exactly to start a conversation. I liked to listen first. You could learn a lot about someone that way.

Robin Talley
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Sometimes we can’t meet someone we want to start a conversation with and we keep trying and trying and it just won’t happen. If we keep trying, we might find that we don’t like the person as much as we thought. Maybe they are too pushy or there is something about them that isn’t very nice. If we stop trying, then maybe people will like us as much as they should.

Source: Our Own Private Universe

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