Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know?

You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I'll want to give you the business. It's human nature.

Speaking is the one trait in which woman is superior to man. Consider what happens when a couple argues. The man tries to talk to the woman. The stupid fool - he can never win.

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

In almost any situation, if you have been the powerful one, which would tend to be men more than women but not always, it's very important to listen as much as you talk. If you have been the less powerful one, it's very important to talk as much as you listen.

I like people. I like to speak to people, engage with people.

I love talking to people, and I'll listen to what they have to say, and if they have ideas or something like that, I'll put you to work.

I want to spend time sitting down with as many people as possible and learn the important issues before us.

Engagement is always better then disengagement. If we don't talk, somebody else will.

If one person reaches out to me, who am I not to reach back? Even if it takes me a year to reply, they do get that message and they feel it.

Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.

It's important for people to give every leader the chance to step forward and look for ways to have dialogue.

In apartments and cottages, on the street and in the train... I listen... More and more, I turn into one large ear, always turning to another person.

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

Never try to have the last word. You might get it.

Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.

As we ride the elevator Gale finally says “You're still angry.” “And you're still not sorry,” I reply. "I will stand by what I said. Do you want me to lie about it?” he asks. “No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion,” I tell him.

I must have my share in the conversation.

A response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an answer. It meets the stimulus, and corresponds with it.

'Speak when you're spoken to!' The Queen sharply interrupted her. 'But if everybody obeyed that rule,' said Alice, who was always ready for a little argument, 'and if you only spoke when you were spoken to, and the other person always waited for you to begin, you see nobody would ever say anything, so that - ' 'Ridiculous!' cried the Queen. 'Why, don't you see, child - ' here she broke off with a frown, and, after thinking for a minute, suddenly changed the subject of the conversation.

Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.