Liv Ullmann Quotes

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

Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.

I can't get on girls' wavelengths at all. I think we are completely different. I don't know, maybe that's the way it should be. If we could all get along occasionally though, that would be nice.

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

To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.

I think women should have insight as to how men think. Just like men should have insight into how women think.

The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.

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.

There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

Engagement is always better then disengagement. If we don't talk, somebody else will.

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

There have been articles saying that all women need to read my book. I ask, why not all men? In fact, that would be even more valuable because we women want to sit down with men and tell them - this is how we feel, this is what we go through.

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

Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our children, or those we love. And least of all - which is so important, too - to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a prerequisite of love. One of the most essential ways of saying 'I love you' is being a receptive listener.

The portal into people's hearts is being interested in them.

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are.

I think I can connect with an audience because I know what it's like to be on the other side of it and I really remember all of that.

If you can open people's hearts first, then maybe people's minds get opened after that.