Tony Robbins Quotes

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

I spent over 90 percent of my time talking to people who didn’t have to listen to me.

Different people need different kinds of communication for it to have the same effect. That was something I had to learn.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.

I think communication should be fun and that we should all worry less about how we say things and more about what we say.

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.

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.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

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.

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

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

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

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

I think, to be a great conversationalist, you need to be interested in being in said conversation. Oddly enough, I think you need to be a great listener, and I do think I'm a good listener. I think that's my asset - I always listen to people when I talk to them, and that's a big thing you have to have in life and in podcasts.

Here's the problem: People have completely and utterly forgotten one thing when it comes to communication - intent.

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.

Empathy is the bridge to understand those who you may be lucky to one day lead, and it is - in my opinion - the most under-appreciated human skill in business.

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

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

The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening.

The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

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