Agatha Christie Quotes

I think, to be a great conversationalist, you need to be interested in being in said conversation. Oddly enough, I think you need to be a great listener, and I do think I'm a good listener. I think that's my asset - I always listen to people when I talk to them, and that's a big thing you have to have in life and in podcasts.

The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.

Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

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

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

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.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink - that's one less connection you could have made.

I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.

It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

We don’t need a speaker; we need a listener!

No story lives unless someone wants to listen.

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

I like talking to anyone that will listen.

Engagement is always better then disengagement. If we don't talk, somebody else will.

Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.

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.

When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection to others.

A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.