John P. Kotter Quotes

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

You see young people, or kids, and they're fascinated by the way people talk. And that's great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, 'You know what? I don't care how you talk, I'm just listening to what you're saying.'

Everyone wants to talk, you've just got to find a way to get them to talk.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

Talking to people is not giving them anything.

I like to talk about different subjects because then you give the people a chance to really digest something, and then take whatever they associate themselves with at the time.

I like talking.

Engagement is always better then disengagement. If we don't talk, somebody else will.

I'm a big believer in communication.

Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.

How else are we going to get anywhere if we can't talk to each other?

In apartments and cottages, on the street and in the train... I listen... More and more, I turn into one large ear, always turning to another person.

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

What most of us want is to be heard, to communicate.

Talking is good. Conversations have to be forever.

I'm so super interested in what it is to stir things up and to listen to people.