Bob Schieffer Quotes

I don't talk a lot when I interview. My job is to get out of the way.

There's only one interview technique that matters... Do your homework so you can listen to the answers and react to them and ask follow-ups. Do your homework, prepare.

When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what's the best way to get the information from that person.

When you're in the middle of an interview, it's so easy to stop listening and think about the next question you're going to ask. You can miss that golden moment which might take you in a different direction or a direction you didn't expect.

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

I have spent a long time being asked questions in interviews, so I've experienced it on the other side but I'm really not afraid to ask any question myself.

She nodded, jotting something in her notebook. You’re writing that down? Has the interview started?” Lee, whenever you’re talking to a reporter, you’re being interviewed.

I like doing interviews. I really do.

My job is to listen and to ask questions and to be respectful and win the trust of my subjects so that I can work my way into their memories and their point of view.

To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.

When I'm interviewing somebody I don't work from prepared questions.

I have a hard time with interviews, because I'd rather hear about the interviewer.

I try to ask the questions I think fans want to hear and just have a good, relaxed conversation.

I try to ask a question rather than give a speech.

I'm not a good interviewer.

I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.

I get interviewed a lot, and I found myself listening to what the interviewer is asking me, I'm analyzing what I'm being asked more than my response.

When you ask for help listen. It's one thing to ask the question and it's another thing to listen to the answer. Many people ask questions but they do not like what they hear and so they pretend that they heard nothing at all.

Interviewing is tough, especially if you don't know what you're looking for.

I’ve learnt to listen. I don’t think I always did listen. Not just in plays, but in life. And you have to hear what people are saying before you can respond.

It's as simple as this. When people don't unload their opinions and feel like they've been listened to, they won't really get on board.

Instead of talking in the hope that people will listen, try listening in the hope that people will talk.

Acting is about listening, and that's something that took me awhile. You almost don't have to learn your lines, if you listen to what they're saying and move it along.

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

Be more interested than interesting.