Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator.

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.

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

The heart communes best when it does not try to speak.

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

Explaining is a difficult art. You can explain something so that your reader understands the words; and you can explain something so that the reader feels it in the marrow of his bones. To do the latter, it sometimes isn't enough to lay the evidence before the reader in a dispassionate way. You have to become an advocate and use the tricks of the advocate's trade.

The desire to reach hearts is wise

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

If you only talk to a person's head and not their heart people won't listen to you.

The heart has such an influence over the understanding, that it is worth while to engage it in our interest.

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long as things were good, and in that moment when they could have been good again, was about the irrelevance of words. You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument?

Dali Lama said, 'when you open the heart of the person with humor, you can tell him the most truth. But if you tell him truth without humor, the heart closes.'

How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?

The heart of change is in the emotions.

Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.

Tap into people's emotions. We've all been put to sleep by a speaker who just gives the facts. You must tap into people's feelings.

Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your heart.

It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made them feel.

It's important to determine not just the quality of your mind but the fullness of your heart.

A candidate has to reach people's heads and reach their hearts.