David Joseph Schwartz Quotes

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

'Know thyself' is a good saying, but not in all situations. In many it is better to say 'know others.'

I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

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

It’s important for me to hear others position and understand them.

It's always easier to dismiss other people than to go through the awkward and time consuming process of understanding them.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

We lack social awareness because we're so focused on what we're going to say next - and how what other people are saying affects us - that we completely lose sight of other people. This is a problem because people are complicated. You can't hope to understand someone until you focus all of your attention in his or her direction.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

I'm engaged: I'm interested in other people. I think that's just as important as knowing how to do the job.

I hate people.

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

Effective listening is something that can absolutely be learned and mastered. Even if you find attentive listening difficult and, in certain situations, boring or unpleasant, that doesn't mean you can't do it. You just have to know what to work on.

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

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

I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

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

The people we are in relationships with are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs, and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs.