Sandra Tsing Loh Quotes

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.

If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.

I spent over 90 percent of my time talking to people who didn’t have to listen to me.

People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.

I think I'm a pretty good listener.

I had to learn to be more open with people and to know how to show that I was interested in them.

I spend most of my life just listening to people.

I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.

People of influence understand the incredible value of becoming a good listener.

I feel very open with people, and I'm good at disarming them and having conversations.

I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.

Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.

I have trouble listening to people tell me about their dreams.

Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. ...I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories.

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

I've never been interested in things that sparkle and shine; I'm more interested in people.

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

I'm good at picking friends.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

Listen more than you talk.

That's probably a problem for some people in this business, they don't like to listen.