Aimee Mullins Quotes

As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.

There's a fullness that happens when someone is focussed on you. For me, if I'm being fully looked at and paid attention to and seen, I'm filled up by that.

If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed.

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

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

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.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

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

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.

It's important for people to give every leader the chance to step forward and look for ways to have dialogue.

In apartments and cottages, on the street and in the train... I listen... More and more, I turn into one large ear, always turning to another person.

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

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

I have a big thing with eye contact, because I think as soon as you make eye contact with somebody, you see them, and they become valued and worthy.

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

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

I am fully present wherever I am. Why bother being in a community or neighborhood and not being fully present? I think that's colonization. I'm not interested in that.

I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.

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

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.

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.

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