“The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.”

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

“If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.”

“I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear”

“Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.”

“If you want to be an effective leader, you need to cultivate one-on-one feedback from trusted individuals throughout your organization, touching all the different levels. Not people who will tell you what you want to hear, but what you need to hear.”

“You don't want to go to war with a president [...] There's a temptation that you have to fight to tell the president what you think he wants to hear. I’ve seen really good people do that.”

“The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.”

“A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be.”

“Get me a drink, or I'll tell you I love you. I'll wake you up in an hour or two, crooning, all sloppy and maudlin, tell you I love you really. You'd like that, right? Hearing Momma tell you she loves you? Isn't that what you want, deep inside?”