Ehman Quotes & Sayings

Listening is more than just being quiet for a moment. It's not just the pause we were talking about earlier. Listening includes paying attention to the whole person, and especially their emotions. — Karen Ehman

The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today. — Ethan Nadelmann

Listening requires attending to the other person's heart. — Karen Ehman

Our words are powerful, and they have consequences. — Karen Ehman

Bruises fade and bones heal, but a scorched heart may take years to mend. — Karen Ehman

The entertainment industry is terrified of silence. — Laura Linney

I need to learn to keep a quiet heart. To trust that if God has allowed an interruption in my day, it serves a purpose. To believe that the time to finish what work I thought needed to be done will be given. To accept that He is diverting me from my 'plan A' to His greater plan. — Karen Ehman

Because there are innumerable things beyond the range of human understanding, we constantly use symbolic terms to represent concepts that we cannot define or fully comprehend. This is one reason why all religions employ symbolic language or images. But this conscious use of symbols is only one aspect of a psychological fact of great importance: Man also produces symbols unconsciously and spontaneously, in the form of dreams. — C. G. Jung

It became rather embarrassing after awhile. I'd step off the plane and there they'd be, all huddled together to meet me in their black velvet robes with huge Baphomets around their necks. Many of our grass-roots people didn't know much about subtlety then, or decorum. I was trying to present a cultured, mannered image and their idea of protest or shock was to wear their 'lodge regalia' into the nearest Denny's. — Anton Szandor LaVey

Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it is a completely different skill set. — Mindy Kaling

The truth is, words are never accidental. — Karen Ehman

In books I meet the dead as if they were alive,
in books I see what is yet to come ...
All things decay and pass with time ...
all fame would fall victim to oblivion
if God had not given mortal men the book to aid them. — Richard De Bury Translated By E.C.Thomas

The big secret in acting is listening to people. — Eli Wallach

Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science. — Bernard Berenson

Un-soft answers only worsen the mama drama in my house. And they don't win many points with my coworkers or neighbors either. When we give an un-soft answer, we drizzle a little gasoline on the tiniest spark of a potential spat. It may combust and flare, setting off a big old blaze. However, — Karen Ehman

So if we have a mouth problem, in actuality what we really have is a mind and heart issue. — Karen Ehman

When showering life-giving words on another human, don't just pick the people you know well. Notice the one who least expects to be noticed. — Karen Ehman

Once an organization begins to stabilize its processes, an amazing thing happens! More time becomes available to concentrate on the longer-term, strategic issues that will move the organization forward, because people have to deal with fewer exceptions and fewer variations from the norm (Standard Work). As — Michael Bremer

Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no trouble in accounting for the universe. He can tell you the origin and destiny of man and the why and wherefore of things. — Robert Green Ingersoll

At last the sun rose, and then my companions seemed to sleep easier. The difficulties under which they had laboured all night, and which had found utterance in the most terrific gasps and snorts, are not to be conceived. As the sun got higher, their sleep became lighter, and so they gradually one by one awoke. I recollect being very much surprised by the feint everybody made, then, of not having been to sleep at all, and by the uncommon indignation with which everyone repelled the charge. I labour under the same kind of astonishment to this day, having invariably observed that of all human weaknesses, the one to which our common nature is the least disposed to confess (I cannot imagine why) is the weakness of having gone to sleep in a coach. — Charles Dickens

Any action which lacks in obedience is a fall, and any act of disobedience is rebellion. — Watchman Nee

Take the advice I sometimes have to give to myself: Don't say something permanently painful just because you are temporarily ticked off. — Karen Ehman