Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

There is nothing I hate more than meeting someone who has forgotten the art of conversing.

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

I like being around people who are good conversationalists.

Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.

We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.

In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.

It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

I actually like talking.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

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?

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

I spent over 90 percent of my time talking to people who didn’t have to listen to me.

He loves people, but even more than that he loves to talk to people.

I like talking to people.

Now, I'm a pretty fast and avid reader. But you can't learn the same things in a book or on the Internet that you can in a personal talk with somebody.

Writing is too lonely. I'd rather talk.

I like people. I like to speak to people, engage with people.

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.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

Conversation makes one what he is.

We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives.

Girl talk. That thing I've always been so bad at.

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Talk is free. You never know what's going to happen after you talk. There's always a perception about a guy until you actually sit down and talk with him.