Mark McCormack Quotes

Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

Oh, listen a lot and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking.

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

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.

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?

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

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

i never learned anything while i was talking.

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

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

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.

I'm trying to be very aware of not repeating myself.

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.

If you talk, you only repeat something that you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something that you don't know.

When I was at school, one of my teachers had two statements hanging from the board all year: 'Be observant' and 'Be empathetic.'

Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, its still okay to feel responsible for someone else's. Live and to learn.

Right speech comes out of silence and right silence comes out of speech.

Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.

You confuse not speaking with not listening.

There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.

Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it.

Listen twice as much as you speak.