"In my opinion, being an effective leader requires being an effective listener. The most productive leaders are usually those who are consistently willing to listen and learn."

-- John Wooden

#Empathy Quotes #Leader Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“I'm the world's worst bearer of grudges. I'm sure I'll be bearing grudges and paying off old scores on my death-bed.”
“The play of sunlight is amusement enough for a lazy man...”
“So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.”
“There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters.”
“There are only two stimulants to ones best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.”
“It's hard for us sophisticates to believe, but the people my parents worked for were good people. They were socialists of the heart. They were Scottish upper class. I don't think they had political theories in the way my lefty friends in New York do but they did all the things that socialists do. My mother was the Jewish cook from Vienna and they would say, "Come and have dinner with us." I spent weekends with them. Who does that? This is Utopia.”
“Yeah. You've seen The Sun today; I've got myself a big house, settled down. Apart from the odd night out with the New Fathers' Club, I'm a family man now.”
“I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.”

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