To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love.

Sometimes, all you need is someone who will listen. It is fortune enough to have people around who hear you & not judge you.

If I bother to listen, I can navigate by failure just as much as I can navigate by success.

In any situation, listen and follow the first instinct, the sacred inner voice.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving or disapproving, without dueling with what is being said, without rehearsing the rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all -- such listening is rare.

We only listen to what we want to hear.

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

The stubbornly doubter always wants to be heardby listens to nothing and misconstrues everything.