Lynn Good Quotes

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

I think one of the things I really learned in Denver is the value of being a good listener.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

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

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

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

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.

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.

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

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

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

I'm a very good listener. I think that's one of the things that makes me a good producer. But it's a challenge for me because my custom is to listen and absorb what someone is saying and take it in, and not necessarily comment.

I often talk too much and don't listen enough.

It's important to learn how to have conversations with other people where it's not debating but discussing.

I definitely learned a lot about how to be more communicative with my crews.

I think I'm a pretty good listener.

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

Listen more than you talk.

I actually think of myself as quite a shy person, although I know I give the impression of someone much more confident. I think what I do have is a capacity to listen to the other, even if the other is an opponent. That leads, in all senses of the word, to an engagement.

That's probably a problem for some people in this business, they don't like to listen.

I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

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.

I enjoy working with people. I understand that as a necessity. And clearly that's something that develops as you get older. And I've grown into that.