Soni Razdan Quotes

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

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

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

As a person, I have never been discourteous or nasty to anybody. I may have stood my ground a bit too directly, a bit too firmly, and I believe I have, over a number of years, learned to be a little less direct.

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.

It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.

You make more friends by becoming interested in other people than by trying to interest other people in yourself.

I've always thought I'd been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-free life, you know?

I get along with people very easily.

Being polite, being respectful, having manners, and being a socialite - they're key life skills that people take for granted. Being able to communicate with all people on all levels is what's got me so far.

I don't want to offend nobody, and I don't rub anybody the wrong way. That's a part of growing up.

Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.

Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. ...I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly.

I listen. I meet with everybody, I don't care what their political persuasion is - whether it be a labor union or small-business folks or individuals who have problems. But I meet with everybody and listen.

You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

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

I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.