Robin Sharma Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

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.

In my experience with women that I've dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren't a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time.

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

I'm a pretty good listener.

I don't like guys who don't listen.

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

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

Helping begins with listening.

You have to give love to get love.

People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.

My wife Patrice, in addition to being enormously supportive, has taught me a lot about life. She might argue it's because I have so much to learn. One of the most important things I've learned is the art of listening.

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

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.