Carl Rogers Quotes

I'm a pretty good listener.

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

With my son, falling off his bike is usually what makes him upset, so a hug goes a long way. But girls are more complicated; my daughter will get bummed out because her friend hurt her feelings. In that case, we'll talk about it. I'll tell her that she's a great friend, and that she needs to talk to her friends about it.

I'm a darned good listener.

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

I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.

She was a genius at listening.

We don’t need a speaker; we need a listener!

For any relationship to survive, one needs excellent communication.

Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

Communication is an issue where we can improve, and if I can do anything to help, I am happy to.

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

What I do for a living is listen.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.

Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.

Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.

I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it.

You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.

There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen.

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?