Jim Carrey Quotes

Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. ...I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories.

I have trouble listening to people tell me about their dreams.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

I spent a lot of time listening to people. But it's also true that I liked details and listening to people when I was a bartender and when I was a waitress and probably when I was a babysitter as well. I suspect that's part of what drew me to psychotherapy rather than the other way around.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

It's so easy to butt into a conversation and offer your own thoughts or opinions, but try not to interrupt. Instead, focus on what the other person is saying, think twice and be the person that listens. It's so much more valuable than constantly talking.

When you listen, as a human being and an actor, you can react authentically.

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

I'm kinda rather make people laugh I guess or cry or whatever but bragging about what I have for me personally uncharacteristic I guess.

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.

I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.

Sometimes listening itself may not be enough-some people must be prodded if you are to find out what they're thinking.

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening.

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

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.

I spend most of my life just listening to people.

You have to learn that people are always listening.

All things and all people, so to speak, call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen. They want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being. But we can give it to them only through the love that listens.

The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

I stand behind what I say. If I don't want it to be out there then I won't say it. I am not out to hurt somebody. I am out to call attention to certain things but I am also out to make people laugh with my delivery and style of bluntness.

When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.

There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.