Beth Macy Quotes

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.

When I talk to kids, I'm really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It's almost like we're friends. Because a friend listens.

Relationships are personal, even in business, so sharing some of yourself and taking an interest in others helps to build trust and break down walls.

Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.

Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.

Here's the thing: When you become brilliant at listening, people feel that you care about them. When they feel you care about them, they begin to care about you. And when people care about you, your success becomes a part of how they define their success.

People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

I’m struck that there is one lesson I learned early and then relearned over and over: Trust is the coin of the realm. When trust was in the room, whatever room that was — the family room, the schoolroom, the locker room, the office room, the government room or the military room — good things happened. When trust was not in the room, good things did not happen.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people, they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.

For me, it's common sense to treat other people like you would like to be treated. Empathy is a broad concept, but how do you get there? People get there differently. I get there by truly building a little trust and connection. You'll tell me something, I'll act on it, and then that builds on itself.

I think, when you get to know somebody on a personal level were you truly understand what makes them tick, what they play for, things they like to do in their spare time, you're around their families, I think you're kind of able to kind of coexist more when you have a relationship.

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

You can have levels of trust, and you can question trust, but it shouldn't be something that's absent. I think, for any sort of relationship, there has to be levels of that.

Building trust is very important.

It sounds cliche, but communication is the number one way to keep a relationship solid.

You can make people laugh, but having them really want to hear what you have to say, that takes trust and time.

I feel like I'm in a privileged position where I get to meet people and talk to them about the most important things in their lives. I appreciate that trust they're putting in me.

A friendship has to be cultivated. A friendship you have to give time.

For any relationship to survive, one needs excellent communication.