Glenn Kelman Quotes

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

Getting to know people as they are is very, very important.

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

I have more awareness of other people and, I hope, more sensitivity to their needs. I also find that I'm more direct and outspoken.

I take time to be with people, and I learn a lot.

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

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've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

My mother always taught me to think about things from other people's perspectives and think about where they're coming from.

You really have to be careful about what you do and think about other people around you, as human beings who feel things, and you have to learn to be empathetic and notice the signs of people who are going through trouble.

Finding your soul begins by discovering our ability to listen! Alternatively, by sharing a smile, a laugh and just by being human to everyone - from friends, colleagues, family, and especially strangers, including those who are not from the same station in life as you.

I think that the most important thing we have is our ability communicate and love other humans.

The thing that I regret is not having better relationships with a lot of people. Being the hard-nosed guy that I was, I think I could've come off a little bit better in my relationships with a lot of people, and I didn't.

Sensitivity doesn't necessarily make you easy to get on with.

How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?

The greatest skill that I have is what the viewer has: I listen. I try to listen silently.

Women love to talk, so you gotta be the guy that listens - not just listens but is interested.

If I have any talent, I think I have an ability to listen to people and also just meet them on their level.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.