Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.

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

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

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.

It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.

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.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.

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

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

Talking to people is not giving them anything.

Until you meet, you will never understand each other.

Conversation is the most human and humanizing thing that we do.

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

Women love to talk, so you gotta be the guy that listens - not just listens but is interested.

I feel that we Germans are spending less and less time talking to each other. And even less time listening to each other.