P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

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

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

If you think communication is all talking, you haven't been listening.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

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.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

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

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

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.

If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.

She was a genius at listening.

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

Communication is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. But consider this: You've spent years learning how to read and write, years learning how to speak. But what about listening?

You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.

What I've really learned is to be open to listen to other people's opinions and then question my own thoughts. And learn how to talk to people. The biggest gift from having one of these moments is that it gets people talking.

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.