Jesse Ventura Quotes

Listen twice as much as you speak.

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

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.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

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

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

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

The art of conversation lies in listening.

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.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.

Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

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

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.

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

Listen more often than you speak.

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

"You learn when you listen. You earn when you listen - not just money, but respect.

It is equally important to listen as it is to speak.