Evelyn Glennie Quotes

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.

You see young people, or kids, and they're fascinated by the way people talk. And that's great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, 'You know what? I don't care how you talk, I'm just listening to what you're saying.'

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

Don’t talk to the people until you’ve listened to the people.

The greatest skill that I have is what the viewer has: I listen. I try to listen silently.

Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.

Listen more than you speak.

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

A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement

It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

Listen more than you talk.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Some people think that you have to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference. That is just not true. Often, the best thing we can do is turn down the volume. When the sound is quieter, you can actually hear what someone else is saying. And that can make a world of difference.

I like it now when kids stare at me, because it is a way of starting a dialogue. And it is far better than them not looking at you at all. Nothing is worse than not being seen.

It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to do it.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

I remember very vividly what it's like to be a child. The adults you liked were the ones who listened to you when you spoke and gave you time to say what you wanted to say and actually listened, and quite often reacted as a result of what you'd said.

I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.