Samuel Daniel Quotes

The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard.

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.

To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

When people feel they’re heard and understood, they’ll listen.

People want to feel understood by their leaders.

I just think there's a real art in listening. I need to listen.

I want everyone to feel like I'm looking them in the eye, I'm hearing what they're saying, I value their opinion because I do.

I don't want to treat my fans like they are stupid.

Derek Jeter used to come to me and try to tell you what Joe Torre is all about, he's a good man, he's this, he's that, but like I tell Derek Jeter, that's you. It's one thing that they treat you a certain way; you don't feel what other people feel.

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

I would just like a woman someday, somewhere, at some point in my life to say to me, 'You're a great listener.' Haven't heard it yet, and that's a superior compliment to get from a woman. But I'm going to work on it.

The portal into people's hearts is being interested in them.

Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.

The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

It's beautiful to have people look me in the eyes and actually treat me like a human.

My mum told me that the best thing you could give a woman was attention.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

I answer a fan with a hearing heart first.