Gloria Steinem Quotes

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 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.

She was a genius at listening.

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

If you listen to a woman, you'll know what she wants.

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.

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

You were supposed to empathize with your friend's problem, but they were, after all, your friend's problems.

Listening is love in action.

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

You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth. People who feel like they're being listened to feel accepted and appreciated. They feel like they're being taken seriously and what they say really matters.

I don't know, but I think kids just want to be listened to, so I want to make sure I do that.

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.

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

We don’t need a speaker; we need a listener!

There's a power in empathy.

I'm a pretty good listener.

I think the ability to empathize with another person's experience and go into the trajectory of their journey is challenging.

Sometimes, the best thing to do is just to sit down and listen to another person's experience and listen how they express themselves and want to be seen by others.

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

When you spend almost two years out talking to people, praying with them, and really finding out some of those tough issues that are impacting them, it makes a lasting impression on you.

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

Other players can be leaders on the pitch, but not all players can understand another player, so I try to. You need to understand the heart of another player. I try to read other people, to figure out how I can joke with this guy, how I can help him or touch his heart.

Employ empathy.