Jimmy Nail Quotes

Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

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

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

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

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

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

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.

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

It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.

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.'

'The Conversation' will hopefully touch on issues that will move people to want to strengthen communication and look to each other for solutions.

When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.

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

There's always a way to talk.

Conversation is the most human and humanizing thing that we do.

I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.

In any relationship, there's gonna be conflict.

When people are saying something to you, you gotta listen to them.