A Quote by Martha Ostenso

There's precious little comes of telling people what they don't want to hear.

Martha Ostenso

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Martha Ostenso
American - Novelist
September 17, 1900 - November 24, 1963

Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.

Simon Sinek

Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear.

Seth Godin

If people want to talk about Bob Dylan, I can talk about that. But my dad belongs to me and four other people exclusively. I'm very protective of that. And telling people whether he was affectionate is telling people a lot. It has so little to do with me. I come up against a wall.

Jakob Dylan

Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want to hear. This is negative pandering; he talks a lot without really ruling anything out so you can draw your own conclusions.....Kerry has been talking for years, and yet such is the thicket of his verbiage that he has achieved almost complete strategic ambiguity.

David Brooks

Often, loyalty means telling people things they don't want to hear. It's not being sycophantic, it's not telling them how wonderful they are every day. It's being willing to tell them the days they're not wonderful.

Robert M. Gates

The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like DMX or whoever else is out there. That's not what they want to hear from me, because if they want to hear that they can go get the real thing.

LL Cool J

What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. When you are able to be humbly honest with someone about a situation with which you have personal experience-even if you risk angering or hurting that person-you are offering the most valuable gift of all.

John Wooden

For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe.

Deval Patrick

Focus groups are a waste of time, filled with people telling you what you want to hear so they can go home.

Sergio Zyman

I became a conservative because I believe that caring for people means more than just spending taxpayer money; it means delivering results. It means respecting and challenging our citizens, telling them what they need to hear, not simply what they want to hear.

Eric Greitens

As I start to think about what I want to do next, there are eight or nine networks I would be thrilled to work with. I remember developing at FX and the executives there telling me, 'We don't want to do shows that 20 million people kind of like; we want to do the show that 2 million people really like.' That's such a refreshing thing to hear.

Rob Thomas

I'd like to think people know what I stand for, which is straight-talking honesty and telling you not just what you want to hear but where it is at.

Theo Paphitis

I want my country to be trusted. I don't want anybody running for president telling the unions what they want to hear at the expense of the credibility of the United States.

Brian Williams

We hear some people talk about the nanny state and, actually, we don't want to be telling people how to bring up their children, or how to be parents.

Nicky Morgan

I just feel like sometimes people don't want to hear the truth. It's hard when you hear the truth. People want to hear what they want to hear. Sometimes I have a hard time with that because I'm very honest.

Stephanie Sigman

The trouble is, most people are not so generous. Everybody wants love for themselves. I hear this all the time from the women I work with. I hear them say, "I want, I want." I never hear them saying what they want to give.

Miuccia Prada

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