Sharon Stone Quotes

There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself.

Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.

It's beautiful to have people look me in the eyes and actually treat me like a human.

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

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.

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.

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

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

I want to keep an inner life alive and, with luck, somebody else's, too.

That's important, apologizing, listening, you know, I think the teens I speak with, most of them don't feel understood. They feel like they're being lectured to all the time.

I'm very human.

I believe in working with the hearts of people, and not locking them up.

If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.

We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.

Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxious - we get defensive and try to solve the problem rather than finding the truth in what the person is saying.

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

The name 'Reflect It Back' comes from the idea of not only giving back but also seeing yourself in someone else.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.

I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.