John Baldessari Quotes

That's important, apologizing, listening, you know, I think the teens I speak with, most of them don't feel understood. They feel like they're being lectured to all the time.

Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard.

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.

When people feel they’re heard and understood, they’ll listen.

It's always marvelous to have somebody who, you know, you feel understands and wants to encourage.

Sometimes, the best thing to do is just to sit down and listen to another person's experience and listen how they express themselves and want to be seen by others.

During the writing of all of my books, I've learned that, most of all, people want to know that someone is listening and - this is the tricky part - remembering.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

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.

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

'Talk to me,' it's what you say to someone to let them know you're there. Just three simple words. But saying them out loud could help save a life.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth. People who feel like they're being listened to feel accepted and appreciated. They feel like they're being taken seriously and what they say really matters.

In my experience with women that I've dated and my wife now, is you have to know what they care about. And even if you aren't a huge fan of it, you still have to have interest in it and it has to be genuine because women do it for men all the time.

We daily share emotions, our personal and shared needs and hope.

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

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

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things.

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

People want to feel understood by their leaders.