Hector Tobar Quotes

Reporters have to use their imagination, really put themselves in the shoes of the person they want to interview.

My policy with interviewing is I'm not there to teach the people I'm across from a lesson.

I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.

I'm curious about people, and I'm curious about getting to the root of where they might be coming from.

Unless you expect the unexpected you will never find it, for it is hard to discover and hard to attain.

I've been able to read people my entire life, because I've interviewed people now for 20-some-odd years. So you can read people that way.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.

You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

I learn something in the interviews from time to time.

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

It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

I'm always willing to talk to somebody if they have something to say that is interesting.