Curtis Jackson Quotes

People like to be consulted.

I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

Who hears wrong, replies wrong.

I actually love Twitter, but I don't ... I never know what to ... I get a lot of my news from Twitter. But, I never ... I sometimes just don't think ... I think Twitter is full of a lot of talkers and not many listeners, so I'm happy to be one of the listeners.

It's not what you say, it's what people hear.

Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)

When you ask for help listen. It's one thing to ask the question and it's another thing to listen to the answer. Many people ask questions but they do not like what they hear and so they pretend that they heard nothing at all.

You confuse not speaking with not listening.

People aren't hearing all the music.

You have to think not about what you mean but about what people hear.

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

How was I to know? ... You didn't say anything.""I said lots of things," he corrected gently. "You just didn't hear them.

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

Instead of talking in the hope that people will listen, try listening in the hope that people will talk.

I’ve learnt to listen. I don’t think I always did listen. Not just in plays, but in life. And you have to hear what people are saying before you can respond.

GIFT You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems but if for my gift I brought you silence (for I know silence) you would say This is not silence this is another poem and you would hand it back to me

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

Only when you understand people, they may understand you. So even though you do not say anything, if you understand people there is some communication.

You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.

If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

I think that's one of the biggest goals I had in making a movie, was listening to what other people had to say.

Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.