Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.

It’s important for me to hear others position and understand them.

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

People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.

I think I am quite a good listener.

I'm a pretty good listener.

People don't listen to each other anymore, and I think that's why people get offended or their feelings get hurt: because you're not actually listening to the person that's giving you signals they're upset.

When people express opinions that differ from yours, take it as a chance to grow. Seek to understand over being understood. Be curious, not defensive. The only way to disarm another human being is by listening.

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.

I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our children, or those we love. And least of all - which is so important, too - to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

I actually think of myself as quite a shy person, although I know I give the impression of someone much more confident. I think what I do have is a capacity to listen to the other, even if the other is an opponent. That leads, in all senses of the word, to an engagement.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

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.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.

The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.