Shunryu Suzuki Quotes

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

She was a genius at listening.

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of respect. It makes people feel valued.

The beauty of social awareness is that a few simple adjustments to what you say can vastly improve your relationships with other people.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

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

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

Until you meet, you will never understand each other.

Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.

If you listen to a woman, you'll know what she wants.

Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.

... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.

Unless you listen, people are weazened in your presence; they become about a third of themselves. Unless you listen, you can't know anybody. Oh, you will know facts and what is in the newspapers and all of history, perhaps, but you will not know one single person. You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.

Ser compreendido é prostituir-se.

Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.