Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

I'm constantly astounded by the way people talk so openly to someone they don't know. They clarify in their own minds what is important to them, discover another person has similar problems, and create trust and even a friendship.

When you are open about your things, people feel more able to talk to you. I think that's a nice thing, because people get help and don't feel so isolated.

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the dance of love is begun again.

People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.

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

After you've listened to it, you'll feel like you know us a little bit better.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.

I hope that people will get to know me and give me the opportunity to get to know them and just respect what I'm doing because I respect how they feel and their thoughts as well.

I think people are willing to talk about anything if you come to it with kindness.

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

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

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

Unless you listen, people are weazened in your presence; they become about a third of themselves. Unless you listen, you can't know anybody. Oh, you will know facts and what is in the newspapers and all of history, perhaps, but you will not know one single person. You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

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

You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

You're assuming they would listen to me," I said. Cole lifted his hands off the roof of the Volkswagen; cloudy fingerprints evaporated seconds ater he did. "We all listen to you, Sam." He jumped to the pavement. "You just don't always talk to us.

I just feel that if somebody happened to fancy somebody else, well, then, I should be a friend that he can say it to.

Let's stop insulting each other and really get to know people. I mean, have a few beers and go on a fishing trip, and you will find a friend who won't see the world the way you do, but where you can have a really good conversation about it.

Take time to get to know people. Understand where they are coming from, what is important to them. Make sure they are with you.

It's good to find common ground with people. When you find common ground and you see things from other people's perspective, you can have a voice in their lives, you can have an influence.

I'm ... incredibly open with my mates. Or even people I just meet.

You could penetrate anybody if you consistently put out love. Some people can't handle it.