Michelle Obama Quotes

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

Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any emotion.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

I think that I have a sensitivity toward people, and that is a strength.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

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 am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Women, the way I see it, are very evolved people. They're more mature, they're more aware of their feelings, in touch with their feelings. They're connected to things that matter more in life. They know what's important. Men basically run around like idiots until we meet somebody who can show us that those things are important.

She was a genius at listening.

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

I find it hard to read people's minds, my own children's minds even harder. But it all worked out, and I was blessed with two wonderful children.

I've got a lot of little quirks and moments that - my wife, she knows exactly what to say and how to handle me, 'cause I can be hard to handle.

We must study love the way we study anything else that matters.

I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

You really have to be careful about what you do and think about other people around you, as human beings who feel things, and you have to learn to be empathetic and notice the signs of people who are going through trouble.

I'm a pretty good listener.

Parenting three children at the same time has helped me grow as a filmmaker. It taught me to be more empathetic and understand what people want from me.

Whenever I'm trying to understand people that I don't understand, or things in people or even in myself, I'll say, 'When did this negativity get here?' I try to think back to how I was raised to deal with things, and then consider how the person that I'm dealing with grew up.

Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.

I don't think I'm a chameleon. I can feel where people are coming from, what makes them tick, where they are vulnerable, what makes them feel good about themselves. I get just as much out of it as they do. I love connecting.