Jane Fonda Quotes

You should focus on being more interested than interesting.

Be more interested than interesting.

It's better to be interested than interesting.

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

You want to be interesting? Be interested.

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

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

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

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 spend most of my life just listening to people.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction.

When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is interesting.

You have to be interested. If you're not interested, you can't be interesting.

The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence than in the power to draw forth the resources of others.

Believe it or not, there are interesting elements in everyone. So, if I can't talk to everybody for at least 7 to 10 minutes, then I'm in the wrong profession.

Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.

The beauty of social awareness is that a few simple adjustments to what you say can vastly improve your relationships with other people.

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.

I love somebody that can hold a great conversation.

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.

Women like men who listen. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen twice as much as we speak.