Lindsay Shookus Quotes

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

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

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.

The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

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.

It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

Until you meet, you will never understand each other.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another

At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.

I think there's plenty of folks out there, whether they agree with me or not, they appreciate the fact that you're listening to them. And I think that's how you win.

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

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.

At the end of the day, you have a side of the story that needs to be heard, too.