Cornelia Funke Quotes

One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.

Your voice will come. We all go through the same thing. You cannot talk when you first arrive." He smiled. "It helps you listen.

Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.

If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

We must ask ourselves how many times others would benefit more from our silence than from our words.

Communication is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. But consider this: You've spent years learning how to read and write, years learning how to speak. But what about listening?

Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you.

Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.

I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.

Speech is silver, silence is golden.