Audre Lorde Quotes

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.

You really have to listen and be vulnerable and open to the other actors and the environment.

I had to learn to be more open with people and to know how to show that I was interested in them.

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

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

I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

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 like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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

I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

The biggest piece of advice I have is - listen. Don't jump to the answer or what you think the answer is. The more you listen, the more you learn.

Building a trust takes time.

I like communicating and being open and committing. That, for me, has always been something that I like to do.

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

Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.

In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our children, or those we love. And least of all - which is so important, too - to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding.

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.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.