Henry Rollins Quotes

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.

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

Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

I'm not an angry man.

You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into you, so you really have to learn to open your mind, open your heart and be super compassionate about other people's points of view, faith and opinions.

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.

If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

The one thing I seek above all else is understanding. Sometimes I'm so frustrated and I don't get it. But I'm lucky to have a good management team and people around me who explain things and answer my questions.

Communication is about being effective, not always about being proper.

No, I don't want you to draw any conclusion. I want you to listen to what I just said.

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

I'm not angry at anyone.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.