Tim Hunt Quotes

The key to being a good interviewer is to listen, no matter how heinous the act that person has committed, you have to listen to them and ask the right questions to get the truth out.

When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.

People love to take sides, but it's not effective. It's not really an effective way of communicating something, because you're either already part of the side or you're going to feel attacked and get defensive.

Criticize the act, not the person.

I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.

Men don't have to tiptoe around me - you can say anything and I won't get offended.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

If a person says or does something that we consider offensive, our first obligation is to refuse to take offense and then communicate privately, honestly, and directly with that individual. Such an approach invites inspiration from the Holy Ghost and permits misperceptions to be clarified and true intent to be understood.

You're not going to be liked by everybody when you speak the truth. I don't speak the truth to put people down; I don't speak the truth to show disrespect.

If you disagree with the way a colleague did something, call him up, invite him out for a coffee, talk about it. But don't do it publicly.

I expect if people have had a problem with me or my attitude, then they come and take it directly with me, face to face.

You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.

I have a hard time with any sort of criticism; not because I have some huge ego or anything like that.

Remember that when criticism is difficult to accept, there is probably some truth to it.

Sometimes, it's hard for me to communicate my discomfort because I want to be respectful. At the same time, I've learned that you have to ask people on your team to help you out.

I have found that when I have attacked people personally, that's been a stupid mistake on my part. And so whoever I have attacked personally I apologize for.

When somebody says something stupid to me, I usually alleviate it with laughter and humour. I make light of it to educate people on why it's inappropriate.

It's one thing to decry and defy political correctness in the name of efficiently achieving clarity or revealing an honest truth. But it's quite another thing entirely to support name-calling and nastiness.

Just because you’re offended, it doesn’t mean you’re right.

Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.

And please, don't take offense. It's not an insult if it's true. - Devyn

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

I'm not joining in personal attacks... I don't do personal attacks.

There's a lot of criticism in this job and what we do. It's in front of everybody and for everybody to have their own opinion about what we do. Don't be in this position if you can't handle that criticism.

I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty.