Marina Abramovic Quotes

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

If you listen to what I'm saying, there's always a reason for it. Always. And it always comes from my heart, a place of love.

I've been saying it at all our Senate Democratic retreats we need to speak to the heart, not in a manipulative way, not in a way that brings forth everybody's fears and resentments, but truly to speak to the heart so that people know that we're actually on their side.

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

People hear you on the level you speak to them from. Speak from your heart, and they will hear with theirs.

Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.

Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.

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.

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

For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real.

What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.

On 'Awkward,' we really like to send the message out that we're relatable, and that we get what people are going through.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

Call me a midget, but just be real. I am all for correct terms, but please don't tiptoe around feelings. Don't be too careful, because that shuts you off from people.

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

We must put ourselves in the place of those who are to hear us

There's this stress that is relieved when you realize somebody understands, and that's only going to happen if you feel the person who's writing the book or the people in the TV show aren't holding back.

I try to be as honest as I can in writing. That's what ends up translating and relating to people.