Dale Carnegie Quotes

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

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

It's so easy to butt into a conversation and offer your own thoughts or opinions, but try not to interrupt. Instead, focus on what the other person is saying, think twice and be the person that listens. It's so much more valuable than constantly talking.

In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.

When you ask people questions about what they've done, not only do you get knowledge, but they like you because people like to be asked questions about what they've done and talk to someone who's interested in them.

Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.

The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.

He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.

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.

You can't expect to communicate with anyone if you're a bore.

So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener.

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.

My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.

I've always been very aware of what I'm saying, but I'm also aware of what you're saying. I always want to make sure that my point is clear.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

[John F.] Kennedy was a great listener. As he listened his eyes got larger, and he looked at you, and you knew you had been looked at and listened to.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

I'm a very good listener. I think that's one of the things that makes me a good producer. But it's a challenge for me because my custom is to listen and absorb what someone is saying and take it in, and not necessarily comment.

It's important to learn how to have conversations with other people where it's not debating but discussing.

It is a secret known but to few, yet of no small use in the conduct of life, that when you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.

When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

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

I like being around people who are good conversationalists.