Lynn Nottage Quotes

How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say?

I'm not that guy who thinks I have all the answers. Writing is a means of communicating, and if enough people say, 'I don't get it,' it's worth looking at.

I've always been very aware of what I'm saying, but I'm also aware of what you're saying. I always want to make sure that my point is clear.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

When you talk, you only talk about something that you already know. But when you listen, you can learn something you don’t know.

In order to practice dialogue, you need to be able to set aside your assumptions and try to listen more than you want to talk. It's not always politically correct to be able to do that, but it can give you a better sense of the reality.

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

What I've really learned is to be open to listen to other people's opinions and then question my own thoughts. And learn how to talk to people. The biggest gift from having one of these moments is that it gets people talking.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

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.

If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.

Listen more than you talk.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

I need to be able to explain myself in context.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.