Arlie Russell Hochschild Quotes

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.

I hope that people will get to know me and give me the opportunity to get to know them and just respect what I'm doing because I respect how they feel and their thoughts as well.

You don't build walls; you build bridges between people.

Even if someone doesn't look like you or you don't know people like this in your real life, you get to know them and you get to see their humanity and you get to empathize with them. Our hope is that through empathy that can spark change. We hope people start talking to each other and our show sparks conversation because we need to start talking to each other, not at each other.

If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

I like to build bridges... not walls.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Love without conversation is impossible.

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

After you've listened to it, you'll feel like you know us a little bit better.

For people to be able to sit down together and have a conversation, that's the power of love.

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

Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

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.

A relationship is based on communication.

People call me and they want talk, they need to get something off their mind, I got all the time in the world for them.

I'm constantly astounded by the way people talk so openly to someone they don't know. They clarify in their own minds what is important to them, discover another person has similar problems, and create trust and even a friendship.

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.

In order to practice dialogue, you need to be able to set aside your assumptions and try to listen more than you want to talk. It's not always politically correct to be able to do that, but it can give you a better sense of the reality.

When you are open about your things, people feel more able to talk to you. I think that's a nice thing, because people get help and don't feel so isolated.