John Jakes Quotes

Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed

Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.

The best thing you can probably do is keep a low profile, keep your eyes and ears open, your mouth shut, and you will learn a ton.

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

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything - to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

Go right on and listen as thou goest.

To hear, one must be silent.

Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.

‎People who talk less frequently notice more.

Keep your mouth closed, and let your eyes listen.

Go around with your eyes like a camera. Don't lose it by talking. Go and listen. And work!

You can observe a lot by watching.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

When you know you haven't been connecting with, persuading, or getting through to someone, consciously pause before meeting them and say to yourself, 'During this conversation, I am committing to being present and to connecting.'