Claire Fox Quotes

When people express opinions that differ from yours, take it as a chance to grow. Seek to understand over being understood. Be curious, not defensive. The only way to disarm another human being is by listening.

It’s important for me to hear others position and understand them.

When people feel they’re heard and understood, they’ll listen.

In life and in politics, it's helpful to try to perceive the other person through the most generous lens.

At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.

We need to understand the other side to impact the other side. We become much more effective as humans and leaders when we engage in hearty conversations with those who are different from us, not necessarily to change our opinions, but to build the empathy muscle.

I think I've always had that orientation to try to understand the humanity behind people with whom I disagree.

And rather than judging and alienating others, I do think there's an opportunity that no one is taking, myself included, to actually understand why somebody is coming from a certain place.

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.

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

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.

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.

Listening is a sign of respect.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another

We must put ourselves in the place of those who are to hear us

… people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

Understanding the other person's viewpoint is the beginning of polical wisdom,

Trying to imagine what it's like to be someone else is never a substitute for actually living that way, for acknowledging the respect that we need to have for each other's experiences.

Countries we love will inevitably do things we don't like or fail to understand. The same goes for people.

I think I'm always trying to see the other's point of view, dealing in a very heart-to-heart way.

I don't like guys who don't listen.