Richard Coles Quotes

A good pastor knows when they can't put two sentences together.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

Listen more than you talk.

Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.

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.

I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.

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

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

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

Listening is the most under rated part of my profession.

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.

Leaders listen. Staggeringly well.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

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

I think I'm a pretty good listener.

Listen more than you speak.

Listen twice as much as 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.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

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.