L'Wren Scott Quotes

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

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

I don't like to be the only person talking in a room.

I grew up with my mom always talking to everyone everywhere, whether it was professionally or in a coffee shop. And my dad was the same way. So I love being able to talk to people, hear their stories and be inspired.

In order to practice dialogue, you need to be able to set aside your assumptions and try to listen more than you want to talk. It's not always politically correct to be able to do that, but it can give you a better sense of the reality.

I love talking to people and finding out their opinion.

For me, doing an interview with someone is like having therapy.

I don't like to write about myself. I like listening to people.

I think, to be a great conversationalist, you need to be interested in being in said conversation. Oddly enough, I think you need to be a great listener, and I do think I'm a good listener. I think that's my asset - I always listen to people when I talk to them, and that's a big thing you have to have in life and in podcasts.

The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue.

What I've really learned is to be open to listen to other people's opinions and then question my own thoughts. And learn how to talk to people. The biggest gift from having one of these moments is that it gets people talking.

Change comes from listening, learning, caring and conversation.

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.

If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.

In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.

Listen more often than you speak.

I do think that just about whenever I am writing, or more accurately, whenever I have written, I feel better and more at peace as a human being. That doesn't mean, unfortunately, that the literary product is any good.