“The smart leader never asks the question he doesn't want to hear the answer!”
Attila (406–453) King of the Hunnic Empire
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Source: The Book Thief
“The smart leader never asks the question he doesn't want to hear the answer!”
Attila (406–453) King of the Hunnic Empire
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“You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them.”
Sitting Bull (1831–1890) Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man
As recorded by reporters covering a speech made by Sitting Bull to U.S. military officers at a conference between the military and the Sioux who had retreated to Canada. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 196.
Context: You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.
“Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.”
Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist
“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”
Roberto Bolaño book The Insufferable Gaucho
Source: The Insufferable Gaucho
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State
Phone call with Gen. Alexander Haig (9 December 1970) quoted in National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 123. The quotation was an excerpt from one of several phone conversations in which Kissinger ridiculed Nixon’s views about the war: "When Nixon proposed an escalation in the bombing of Cambodia, Kissinger and Haig felt obliged to humor the president while laughing at him behind his back" (Washington Post, May 27, 2004). Transcript at the National Security Archive http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB123/Box%2029,%20File%202,%20Kissinger%20%96%20Haig,%20Dec%209,%201970%208,50%20pm%20106-10.pdf <br class="br">1970s
“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Andy Rooney (1919–2011) writer, humorist, television personality
Jeff Fager, Chairman of CBS News and Executive Producer of 60 Minutes — quoted in CNN, Longtime CBS newsman Andy Rooney hospitalized, CNN Wire Staff, October 26, 2011, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/25/showbiz/andy-rooney-hospitalized/index.html, <br class="br">About