Chuck Klosterman Quotes

Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.

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

I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.

I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of interviewer, but I'm not it. It doesn't play to my strengths at all. I like to interview people who are interested in telling their story and tell it as truthfully as they can.

Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.

To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.

Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things.

Interviewing someone is a very proactive process and requires taking a lot of agency into your own hands to get past people's general normal self-preservation mode.

I think I am quite a good listener.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

I'm a pretty good listener.

I feel like I'm a good listener.

I think it makes you a good listener about other people's relationships when you haven't got that much to say about your own.

It's important to learn how to have conversations with other people where it's not debating but discussing.

Negotiation is empathy. It's almost trite to say that if you can't put yourself in the seat of the other person you're speaking with, you're not going to do well. It's not about being a bully, not about making offers people can't refuse.

If you interrupt somebody too early, if you miss it and don't interrupt at all - that's the difference between a good interview and a bad interview. It's about the absolute moment.

I definitely learned a lot about how to be more communicative with my crews.

I think I'm a pretty good listener.

Why do people who consider themselves good communicators often fail to actually hear each other? Often it's due to a mismatch of styles: To someone who prefers to vent, someone who prefers to explain seems patronizing; explainers experience venters as volatile.

Sensitivity training is a fine idea but isn't taken seriously by those who need it most.

A good listener goes a long way.

Shigure: JUST LISTEN TO ME FOR A SECOND, KYO! Kyo: SHUT UP! I HATE THIS! DO YOU REALLY GET THAT MUCH ENJOYMENT FROM PLAYING WITH PEOPLES' LIVES?! Shigure: Well, yes, now that you mention it, I do--BUT THIS IS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD! Kyo: Man, your persuasion skills SUCK! Tohru: Um, welcome home. Dinner's- Kyo: NOT HUNGRY! Shigure: KYO! DON'T TAKE THIS OUT ON TOHRU! And come back to the entrance hall this instant and take those shoes off! Yuki: He's right, Shigure. You really do suck at persuasion.

Lack of harmony comes when I feel that I know how to do something better than you. Lack of harmony is the song and dance of superiority. Because everybody feels superior, disharmony at every moment is entering into our lives.