KT Tunstall Quotes

Listen more than you talk.

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

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

It's so easy to butt into a conversation and offer your own thoughts or opinions, but try not to interrupt. Instead, focus on what the other person is saying, think twice and be the person that listens. It's so much more valuable than constantly talking.

I think I'm a pretty good listener.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

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

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.

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

It illustrates vividly my incapacity of knowing when to be silent and when to speak.

You ain't learning nothing when you're talking.

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

My ears are really good. I'm a good listener.

I can be incredibly focused, and I can appear impatient. So I've learned to slow down, get to know people, and provide more context. There's nothing wrong with getting to the point pretty quickly, but it's also helpful to give people an opportunity to talk about their work.

Listen more than you speak.

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

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

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.

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.

There is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up.

Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.