Stephen Rodrick Quotes

My job is to listen and to ask questions and to be respectful and win the trust of my subjects so that I can work my way into their memories and their point of view.

I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.

People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won't be shocked. Or judgmental.

A lot of people would write to me long stories from their lives, and I felt they were thinking of me as some sort of treasure chest to keep their secrets. I felt like sometimes they would tell me stories they wouldn't tell anybody else in the whole world. And I loved these stories.

I like developing relationships.

I don't have any problems getting people to open up.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.

I've always been really interested in secrets - how people find ways of doing things without telling anyone else in order to keep themselves feeling safe in the world.

The reason for privacy is not so that people will not know you go to the bathroom. It's to allow certain things to go on that you don't want other people to know about, when all is said and done. But the things I don't want other people to know about are not my sex life.

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.

I prefer to keep my secrets to myself, to the grave... and beyond!

If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.

Generally, I do not talk about people - family or friends. This is how I am.

I am not somebody who likes to give advice, or anything like that, unless it's my closest friends or family.

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.