Bill Gothard Quotes

A story about my life should not be particularly interesting, but it is: it's just about me and some kids who didn't know how to talk to each other. It's personal but not autobiographical.

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

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

Unless one understands the power of words, he will never understand men.

Words are only as good as the response to those words.

Often times people forget that every human has potential to change the world like Steve Jobs did.

I take time to be with people, and I learn a lot.

That's always what I've tried to do. I've tried to communicate. But at the end of the day, it's still for you to understand something. Understand that the world is bigger than you.

It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through you.

I think I was able to talk to people about values in ways that people - in ways that resonated with folks.

In music in general, you're always getting a lot of information, buts it's most important to have honest communication. It's always important to understand that we can do so much individually if we connect with one another and have honest conversations. As scary as it is, it can be very liberating. Staying connected to the people you love and staying connected to the things that really matter has been my biggest lesson.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.

More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another. Whether the other be an adult or a child, our engagement in listening to who that person is can often be our greatest gift. Whether that person is speaking or playing or dancing, building or singing or painting, if we care, we can listen.

One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention

People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now.

I want to be better at staying connected.

All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and communicate with them properly.

The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

I was 16 or something. [My aunt] broadened my understanding of what women could be like and do and that there's a big world out there. So she had a huge impact on me.

There is no greater power on this earth than story.

I read to see myself in other people's lives.

Because of the friends I have known, the honorable people I have met, I know I am no solitary hero of unique causes. I know now that when I die, I will live on. That which is important will live on. This is my Legacy; and by the grace of the gods, I am not alone.