Margaret Heffernan Quotes

Empowering those around you to be heard and valued makes the difference between a leader who simply instructs and one who inspires.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

People want to feel understood by their leaders.

I like it now when kids stare at me, because it is a way of starting a dialogue. And it is far better than them not looking at you at all. Nothing is worse than not being seen.

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.

In order for us to have changes in society, we have to do a better job with listening to each other, listening to stories, listening to experiences and sharing things. That's the way you're able to come to a better understanding of people in general. We have to do a better job in society. It starts at the top.

And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

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.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

I answer a fan with a hearing heart first.

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.

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.

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

Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.

The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

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

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.

We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behaviour, show, condescention, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel

One of the nice things about being chairman of the Civil Rights Commission is you can get people to listen to you. You can get the Federal Reserve to listen to you. You can get the governors to listen to you.

You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader. You can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it.

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