Amanda de Cadenet Quotes

I think a good friend, to me, is all about trust and loyalty. You don't ever want to second-guess whether you can tell your friend something.

I think people are willing to talk about anything if you come to it with kindness.

I just love creating an environment where people can open up and say what's on their mind and in their heart.

My job is to listen and to ask questions and to be respectful and win the trust of my subjects so that I can work my way into their memories and their point of view.

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

I like to see the joy in people's' faces. I like to see when they actually question that I'm not afraid to answer and give them my respect and honesty with what I have to say to them.

I am someone who will listen and someone who has an open mind.

I'm a great listener.

I had to learn to be more open with people and to know how to show that I was interested in them.

People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.

To me, having the courage to tell your own story goes hand in hand with having the curiosity and humility to listen to others' stories.

Hairdressers don't judge you. They pretty much accept everything because they've heard everything. They're on your side, like a cheerleader, and there's no competition. They don't want to be you, and you don't want to be them.

I'm the straight-talking woman in your life who is going to be really honest with you, but come from a place of love. I'm not talking down to you; I do this from my heart.

If you're going to counsel people - and that's all my ministry is, it's a counseling ministry more than anything else - people have to believe that they can trust you and that they can listen to you, that you're going to try to help them and not just politically try to convert them to your views.

A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.

The biggest ingredient in a best friend is someone whose actions you respect and who you can truly be yourself around.

When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people's concerns. You can keep an open mind and still be perfectly strong.

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.

Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.

People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won't be shocked. Or judgmental.

Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.

If You are a man who leads, calmly hear the speech of one who pleads, (and) do not stop him from purging his body of that which he planned to tell.

The greatest respect you can give your political adversaries is to give them your undivided attention. If you want them to hear you, you have to be willing to hear them.

You really have to listen and be vulnerable and open to the other actors and the environment.