Valerie Jarrett Quotes

It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

For me dialogue is as essential in football as in life. I like to talk to my players and I never impose anything, I always give them the chance to make their own choices.

It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.

Leaders listen. Staggeringly well.

Meetings should have as few people as possible, but all the right people.

If you talk, you only repeat something that you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something that you don't know.

The quarterback position is a role of leadership, and I feel just who I am as a person, I bring different types of leadership to the table.

One of the important things as a captain or coach is knowing what's going on around you, and knowing the right thing to say at the right time.

It is said that dispensing advice is easy. What is difficult is getting anyone to listen to it.

Communication is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. But consider this: You've spent years learning how to read and write, years learning how to speak. But what about listening?

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.

The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

The biggest mistake you can make in trying to talk convincingly is to put your highest priority on expressing your ideas and feelings. What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood. The moment people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

There is a craft and a power in listening.

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying

good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth.

Listen twice as much as you speak.

You've got to listen but you've also got to lead.

Ah, Harry, how often this happens, even between the best of friends! Each of us believes that what he has to say is much more important than anything the other might have to contribute!

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi