Travis Bradberry Quotes

People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

I listen much better when I'm acting than I do in real life.

I don't know how you can understand other people or yourself if you haven't read a lot of books. I just don't think you're equipped to deal with the demands and decisions of life, particularly in your dealings with other people.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.

I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.

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

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

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

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

I know I probably offend some people. I have been talking a little too much so I'm trying not to talk as much.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

This is the first lesson for writers - or anyone - who conducts interviews: If you want someone to talk, you've got to know how to listen. And good listening is a surprisingly active process. The interviewee is your focus of attention; you are there to hear what he says and thinks, exclusively.

When you talk, you only talk about something that you already know. But when you listen, you can learn something you don’t know.