Angie Thomas Quotes

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

I just want to listen and build relationships with as many of my colleagues as possible.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

I don't mind have an uncomfortable conversation if those uncomfortable conversations can lead to a bigger dialogue and help us get to a better understanding of whatever it is we are discussing.

Working with anyone is easy as long as you realise that your collaborator has the understanding and experience even if he is younger to you.

I think communication should be fun and that we should all worry less about how we say things and more about what we say.

The chance to talk to so many people and understand what they're thinking about and why it matters is really, really so interesting. When you're doing that, you have to truly listen to what people are saying. You can't just pretend to listen.

I think in a new relationship it's really important to at least respect each other's interests, even if you don't get super into everything.

I try to speak from a place of understanding and most times I'm speaking from a place of experience.

Yeah, you can disagree with someone and still be cool - that's a thing!

Listen to clients, employees, and peers and stay open to their ideas, feedback, and answers. Doing so is vital to the success of any leader.

The biggest quality of good actors is that they know how to respect their co-actors, whether they are as big a name as them or not.

Dialogue can be held with everyone. It is not necessary to be like-minded to hold talks, but it is compulsory to be right-minded.

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

Listening is something as elected officials, as leaders, we forget to do.

The cliche of call-centre work is that it's mainly older people who will stay on the line to talk to you. Whether through loneliness or good manners, they tend to allow you to finish your sentences, hear you out.

I try to work with people the way they prefer.

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

My policy with interviewing is I'm not there to teach the people I'm across from a lesson.

Listen, talk, be respectful of people - and make sure that you have openness to where people are coming from. And you don't do anything that is unnecessarily antagonistic, that is only going to make you feel good because you've done it.

If you aren't committed to diversity of thought, you have no business launching a startup.

Establish and maintain good working relationships with co-workers. You don't have to be friends, but you do have to be friendly.