“Love what you do. Enjoy listening to people. It can be hard work, but the potential for helping people is tremendous.” PeopleHardHelpingEnjoyHard WorkListeningHelping People Author:Robert Tisserand
“Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.” HardHard WorkListeningAchievementEffective Listening Author:Tom Peters
“I hesitate talking about a program for change because we're in this moment where no one is listening to sex workers about how things should change. So I'm even speaking less as a former sex worker and more as a person trying to see the bigger picture that might be hard to see when you're doing sex work full-time, or running a social service organization, or doing all the things that a lot of sex worker activists are doing. It's hard work, and they don't necessarily get the time to step back and see the whole picture.” TryingMomentsRunningHard WorkListeningProgramActivistSocial ServiceBigger Picture Author:Melissa Gira Grant
“Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.” WantHeartHardSoundHard WorkListeningHearingTouchy Author:Anna Deavere Smith