Mardy Grothe Quotes

The truth hurts. It hurts to some people.

Listen if you want to be heard

Be eager to lend a patient ear to the opinions of others and think long and hard whether whoever finds fault has reason or not to censure you. And if the answer is yes, correct the fault. If no, give the impression that you have not heard him, or if he is a man whom you respect, explain to him why he is mistaken.

The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.

I think we should all learn to listen more to America.

Communists must listen attentively to the views of people outside the Party and let them have their say. If what they say is right, we ought to welcome it, and we should learn from their strong points; if it is wrong, we should let them finish what they are saying and then patiently explain things to them.

What most of us want is to be heard, to communicate.

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

What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all of it - not what you want or what makes you comfortable, but all of it. And you will not erase what displeases you.

There are things you don't want to know you can do

We need to listen to one another.

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.

Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.

By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.

Give us grace to listen well.

After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.

It taught him how to listen -- how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.

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

To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.

The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.

To become a master communicator: shut your mouth & listen first.

It is equally important to listen as it is to speak.

The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to maintain patience when faced with a process that is often slow, confusing, and frustrating.