Orhan Pamuk Quotes

Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them.

Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

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

More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another. Whether the other be an adult or a child, our engagement in listening to who that person is can often be our greatest gift. Whether that person is speaking or playing or dancing, building or singing or painting, if we care, we can listen.

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is said to him, and can not answer!

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.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

If you can open people's hearts first, then maybe people's minds get opened after that.

Communication is so key.

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

You don't accomplish a lot by changing people's opinions by shoving facts down their throat. I think you change people's opinions by opening your heart up and showing the parallels between you and another person. That's how people's ideas shift.

I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.

Oh, those golden-yellow eyes of the wolf! You can feel yourself being pulled in. I knew I had been accepted - and that I had spoken to another species.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

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

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

Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things.

My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English language.