Benjamin Clementine Quotes

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

If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.

Until you meet, you will never understand each other.

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

I just feel if everyone could sit down and talk to me, they'd be like, 'Oh, she's not scary at all.'

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

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

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

Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.

If you can open people's hearts first, then maybe people's minds get opened after that.

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

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

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

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the 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 human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

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.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

When you boil war down or all conflict down to two people, it's a great advert for humanity sometimes. People can find connections with each other, regardless of the bigger picture.