Will Rogers
Will Rogers
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogerswas an American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, newspaper columnist, social commentator, and stage and motion picture actor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth4 November 1879
CountryUnited States of America
evil empathy quality
True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being judged, perhaps I am not so evil or abnormal as I have thought".
real eye thinking
When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me".
inspirational life journey
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
empathy creative listening
So, as you can readily see from what I have said thus far, a creative, active, sensitive, accurate, empathic, nonjudgmental listening is for me terribly important in a relationship. It is important for me to provide it; it has been extremely important, especially at certain times in my life, to receive it. I feel that I have grown within myself when I have provided it; I am very sure that I have grown and been released and enhanced when I have received this kind of listening.
real people different
The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive it at this moment. The only reality you can possibly know is the world as you see it at this moment. And the only certainty is that those perceived realities are different. There are as many “real worlds” as there are people!
optimistic people psychology
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
teach persons facilitate
A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning
growth becoming be-you
What you are to be, you are now becoming.
people accepted feels
People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.
experts perceive knows
As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.
believe people personality
I believe I know why it is satisfying to me to hear someone. When I can really hear someone, it puts me in touch with him; it enriches my life. It is through hearing people that I have learned all that I know about individuals, about personality, about interpersonal relationships.
inspirational blame persons
The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.
struggle views skills
Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.
inspirational motivational education
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.