Sarah Kay Quotes

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

Listen twice as much as you speak.

The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening.

Listen more often than you speak.

I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

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

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

[John F.] Kennedy was a great listener. As he listened his eyes got larger, and he looked at you, and you knew you had been looked at and listened to.

It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.

Communication is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. But consider this: You've spent years learning how to read and write, years learning how to speak. But what about listening?

Most of us recognize how important it is to listen respectfully when our loved ones are talking; but we often forget that it is equally important to talk respectfully when they are listening.

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.

For maximum impact, listen more and speak less.

I've learned to listen in all aspects of life, in all relationships and communications. The biggest lesson is to listen.

A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.

If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.