Sharon Van Etten Quotes

One of my beliefs about leadership is it's not how many followers you have, but how many people you have with different opinions that you can bring together and try to be a good listener.

I always thought of myself as being part of a family and sharing and, yes, leading, but not forcing people to do anything.

When people realize they're being heard, and have a seat at the table, things seem to work out.

Everyone must have a voice, and everyone deserves clarity.

What's great about our leadership is they welcome other ideas.

All the small things matter. Communication. It doesn't matter what you are doing. You have to be on the same page.

I have been fortunate to collaborate with people who have been open to discussion. If I tell them something, they have always explained to me why they want it the other way.

We have to ensure that everybody's voice is heard equally, or nobody's will be.

However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

Over the next four years, I will continue to listen to different views and accept different suggestions.

I'm a leader, not a dictator. I want to persuade people rather than threaten or control them.

If you want to build an open source project, you can't let your ego stand in the way. You can't rewrite everybody's patches, you can't second-guess everybody, and you have to give people equal control.

Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put in plain words what my faults are, and give my band-mates the ultimate consideration by shutting up and listening, then acting on the advice given. Same goes for anyone else in any band.

Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?

Being a good leader requires remembering that you're there for a reason, and the reason certainly isn't to have your way. High-integrity leaders not only welcome questioning and criticism - they insist on it.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

One of the things my father taught me was you should not exclude those who are opposed to your ideas.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.

Dialoging is the first principle of good government.

Tact, respect, and generosity toward variant views will always commend themselves to those charged with the duties of legislation so as to achieve a maximum of good will and to require a minimum of unwilling submission to a general law.

You don't compromise principles, but you harmonize tactics to preserve unity.

The committee will be composed of open-minded people who agree with me.

We can have more democracy and openness and still be efficient.

if we stop talking at one another, and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done.