Dr. Seuss Quotes

If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed.

I like the idea that I can talk to any teenage girls. You know, in a language that makes sense to them.

I love to engage with people who come to see us.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

I think if you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.

Whom we wish to talk to is as important as what we say.

For me, it's always been one of my pet peeves to keep people engaged and talking, and just always being interested in what I have going on. To keep the level of creativity always turned up to the max.

I can see that when I talk, guys listen.

In apartments and cottages, on the street and in the train... I listen... More and more, I turn into one large ear, always turning to another person.

It's much more important to be interested than to be interesting.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

You have to be interested. If you're not interested, you can't be interesting.

Connecting today is a dialogue.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

To be interesting, be interested.

I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.

The same basic tools we've used for thousands of years to connect with people, to draw them in and to hold their attention will always work, even if we're telling our stories 140 characters at a time.

In the end, you can' t talk to everyone.

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

Teaching and writing, to me, is really just seduction; you go to where people are and you find something that they're interested in and you try and use that to convince them that they should be interested in what you have to say.

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.