Being Heard Quotes

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.

Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

When people realize they're being heard, and have a seat at the table, things seem to work out.

You can still fight when someone can't talk.

One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

Every human being can relate to wanting their thoughts and their feelings to be accepted and rewarded and validated. So in that way, a stand-up is similar to almost any profession. It's very simply just someone who wants to be heard and live authentically and express themselves.

Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed.

Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.

I know how to be loud.

I've become a much better player, so I feel like my voice is heard and taken for what it's worth a little bit more.

Through a lot of conversations with the Minister [Louis Farrakhan] you've got to know when to say something. But if you are forever going to be afraid to say anything, then you become irrelevant - as a force. I mean, so the God-given gift that you got, you're not a relevant player in the game - you're just a dude whose got money, got a big house and some cars.

A cacophony of whispers is also noise. There are many ways to be heard, and there are many ways to be visible. There are many ways to be seen.

The things I have to say on and off the record are important, and I say them because I want to be heard.

People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live.

When people say, 'I don't see you enough,' well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist, or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.

If my body can fall into the background for just a second, maybe people will start listening to what I have to say.

Certainly part of being from a big family is that you have to shout to make yourself heard.

If no one hears you, and no one listens to you, it doesn't matter how good you are because no one cares about you.

I learned early on - I can go to a shoot, and they will put anything they want to put on me, and I'll look like an idiot because I didn't say I don't like it. It's OK to have an opinion.

Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.

Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.

The most difficult part is just to get heard.

You were seen, you were heard and you matter.