Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings. The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking our words more seriously and discovering their true selves.
The world doesn’t need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.
Transitions themselves are not the issue, but how well you respond to their challenges!
I really respond to putting myself out of my own depth and finding my feet.
Joy is a decision, a really brave one, about how you are going to respond to life.
In the future there cannot be room for ambiguity. They have to make their position absolutely clear before they can expect anyone to respond to it.
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem. " Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.
Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.
The idea of trying to predict what people will or won't respond to is risky.
How you respond to the enemy of your soul determines whether his plan for your life or God's plan for your life is realized.
The question is not whether or not you will face trials. The question is, how will you respond when you do?
Our enemies will respond only to American strength.
The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
I take the fan response very seriously and respond personally to my fan mail.
The natural response to evaluation is to feel judged. We have to mature to a place where we respond to it with gratitude, and love feedback.
We have reached a profound point in economic history where the truth is unpalatable to the political class - and that truth is that the scale and magnitude of the problem is larger than their ability to respond - and it terrifies them.
Respond to others about your work with equanimity.
Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
No matter what I've written, someone somewhere has come up to me and said, "Me too. " The truth can be offensive, but it's always nourishing, in a way. You recognize it. You can feel it. And even if [readers] think, "My god, I would never get in those situations," within those ridiculous circumstances that I have created for myself, they know the way I respond is probably what they would do too.