Daniel Ek Quotes

I've learned that I am allowed to say what I like and what I don't like. And I've learned that I have to be professional and not be everyone's best friend.

I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.

When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your heart.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

I'm fortunate enough to have learned not to waste time getting frustrated with my kids, or co-workers, or friends and family for not doing everything I wish they would. If someone doesn't respond to me the way I want them to, I understand that it doesn't have anything to do with me.

Continuing to listen and grow is important because we get into bad habits in relationships.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.

I just want to be more willing to listen to many people and be cautious about what I'm doing.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.

Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

I'm not in the what-people-feel business. It is not my place to guess.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.

The most important quality in a partner is a sense of humour.

Every man is different. You can't generalize with men; you have to find out what your man wants. You have to listen to him when he's telling you what he wants, because a lot of times they're telling you, but you're not listening.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.

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 think women who don't understand boundaries are fascinating.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.