Mazie Hirono Quotes

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'

The portal into people's hearts is being interested in them.

You don’t address their brains. You address their hearts.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.

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.

I answer a fan with a hearing heart first.

If you can open people's hearts first, then maybe people's minds get opened after that.

On 'Awkward,' we really like to send the message out that we're relatable, and that we get what people are going through.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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

You don't accomplish a lot by changing people's opinions by shoving facts down their throat. I think you change people's opinions by opening your heart up and showing the parallels between you and another person. That's how people's ideas shift.

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.

You have to want to be in the company of those you're making films about.

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.

I came from battling, knowing about the lyrics. All that's cool, but if you want people to love you, you have to talk to them about what they go through.

I'm very human.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability... When the leader demonstrates vulnerability and sensibility and brings people together, the team wins.

I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.