Ayanna Pressley Quotes

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Listening is a master skill for personal and professional greatness.

I think I am quite a good listener.

What's important is to listen before you react.

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

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

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

Listen more than you talk.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Listening speaks louder than words.

When you talk, you only talk about something that you already know. But when you listen, you can learn something you don’t know.

The first thing you’ve got to do in a community is listen, not talk.

If you are approachable, if you keep your line of communication open, then very often, you get to hear what you need to hear.

I am running on the fact that I am doing a good job listening to people.

Leaders listen. Staggeringly well.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

I'm a pretty good listener.

I feel like I'm a good listener.

If leadership is about listening, the great political speeches would have been a little different.

If you talk, you only repeat something that you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something that you don't know.

My policy with interviewing is I'm not there to teach the people I'm across from a lesson.

I think you kind of facilitate civil conversation no matter how heated you think it could get by telling everybody and showing them that you mean what you say when you value all sides.

I think I'm a pretty good listener.

Listen more than you speak.