Elisabeth Shue Quotes

A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.

I don't have any problems getting people to open up.

When I interview someone, I know in the first two minutes if I like them or not. I find that if it's easy to talk to someone and I see an openness and honesty and integrity, then I usually hire them.

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

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.

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

In any solid, good relationship, it takes a while to trust someone.

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

Building a trust takes time.

Me being so open just helps other people. People feel like they know me so much that they can talk to me all of the time about really personal things. Sometimes it's really nice and comforting. It depends on the person, whether they're creepy or not.

I have a way of opening up people and gaining their trust. I think they can see my vulnerability because I'm unafraid to admit if something doesn't quite work.

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

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

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

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.

You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.

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

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.