Blaise Pascal Quotes

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

It's hard to put yourself in someone else's head.

I am the type of person that likes to put myself in someone's shoes to 'get' it.

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

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

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

I learned the most important thing is to put yourself in the shoes of the players.

Before I judge someone, I need to talk to them and learn what their journey's are.

I just think there's a real art in listening. I need to listen.

Empathy is one of our greatest tools of business that is most underused.

Individuating and taking someone else's perspective can be very powerful.

The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them.

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

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

The best way to break down that fear is to spend time with somebody, put yourself in somebody else's shoes, understand what the other person is going through.

Helping begins with listening.

There is so much to be learned from listening to people's hopes, frustrations, and points of view

Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

You have to walk in the other guy's moccasins. You have to think what they think. If you want to bring somebody onto your side, you have to figure out what motivates them. What do they need?

The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.

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