Communication Quote by Tony Blair Download Open image “Politics is about listening and it's about leading.” — Tony Blair ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Communication Leadership Listening Politics
Listening is something as elected officials, as leaders, we forget to do. — Ayanna Pressley Copy Share Image
I think that being in politics, being in leadership should be as much about listening as talking. That's how I think you can get… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits. — John Avlon Copy Share Image
Part of being a successful leader is listening and looking for opportunities to bring people together. — Kim Reynolds Copy Share Image
Leaders are meant to lead from the front, but at the same time, they are also meant to listen to what their followers are… — Cyril Ramaphosa Copy Share Image
Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership. — Angelo Sotira Copy Share Image
I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I mean, you can agree or disagree with Iraq or Afghanistan, but by the way, now the great campaigning cause out there is the… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Politics may be the art of the possible, but at least in life, give the impossible a go. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually,… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds. — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and… — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless consumption isn't much of a life. And work offers us very little satisfaction. Plus our work and consumption is destroying the environment. And this is in the rich countries. Add starvation, etc. to the mix, and… — Michael Yates Copy Share