“All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will may see and know. She conveys her truths only to those who are passive and receptive.” KnowsMayLightMotherFoundNatureTeachMysteryListeningLessonsScientistPrejudiceNotionDogmaPassiveBiasMother NatureReceptivePreconceived NotionsShedding Light Author:Luther Burbank
“I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.” KnowsChildrenDifferentHateLeftNaturalEnvironmentListeningAdultsAbusePrejudiceSafetyTolerancePianoNonsenseDevicesTraitsRidingBikeNormGangAmusedNatural EnvironmentArmchairs Author:Josh Lieb
“An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker's world from the inside, step in inside his or her shoes.” WorldGivingDesireStepsListeningDisciplineEssentialsGiving UpPrejudiceShoesSettingSettingsTemporarySpeakersFrame Of Reference Author:M. Scott Peck
“I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say "rock". Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him "soul". They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap.” YearsSoulKidsUsedEnjoySoundWhiteCompanyRecordsRocksListeningBandPrejudiceRadioSingersLabelsBrownCrapRecord Companies Author:Miles Davis
“If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.” IfsKnowsWayI CanThreeProcessMy OwnListeningJudgmentEmptyPrejudiceCome UpHearingInterviewsExhausted Author:Anna Deavere Smith
“If we try to listen we find it extraordinarily difficult, because we are always projecting our opinions and ideas, our prejudices, our background, our inclinations, our impulses; when they dominate, we hardly listen at all to what is being said...One listens and therefore learns, only in a state of silence, in which this whole background is in abeyance, is quite; then, it seems to me, it is possible to communicate” IfsTryingSaidIdeasStatesWholeSeemsDifficultSilenceOpinionListeningPrejudiceCommunicateBackgroundsImpulseInclination Book:Talks & Dialogues, Saanen, 1967 Source: Talks & Dialogues, Saanen, 1967
“The way of being with another person which is termed empathic...means temporarily living in their life, moving abut in it delicately without making judgment... to be with another in this way means that for the time being you lay aside the views and values you hold for yourself in order to enter the other's world without prejudice...a complex, demanding, strong yet subtle and gentle way of being.” WorldWayMeanPersonsMovingValuesOrderStrongUnderstandingViewsListeningJudgmentEmpathyPrejudiceLaysComplexesGentleSubtle Author:Carl Rogers