Blase J. Cupich Quotes

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

For me, I try to live life every day by getting to know people for who they are and learning from them.

What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.

In order for us to have changes in society, we have to do a better job with listening to each other, listening to stories, listening to experiences and sharing things. That's the way you're able to come to a better understanding of people in general. We have to do a better job in society. It starts at the top.

I'd never presume to understand what it's like to be in a community I've never been a part of, but I can show up, listen and learn.

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

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. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.

My wife Patrice, in addition to being enormously supportive, has taught me a lot about life. She might argue it's because I have so much to learn. One of the most important things I've learned is the art of listening.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

One of the things I think we're learning to do as the twelfth insight emerges is to be discerning without being judgmental, because condemning someone certainly feels like a comic event that brings other things back on you.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

I sometimes let people down, especially when I was younger. I was cavalier about what people told me. Part of growing up is learning when to shut up.

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

Whether you're an opera singer, a legislator or customer service operator, there is a way that we can find common ground with our audience - be they young or old, Democrats or Republicans, rich or poor, religious or secular.

You don't accomplish a lot by changing people's opinions by shoving facts down their throat. I think you change people's opinions by opening your heart up and showing the parallels between you and another person. That's how people's ideas shift.