Maria W. Stewart Quotes

... all of us talk faster than we listen.

I can't believe I'm about to say this," I said. "So think real careful about where this is coming from. Have you people ever considered *talking* when you've got a problem?

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

When you're alive and everything is going fine, why talk about things? Talking's for later, when talking's all there is that's left.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

Some guys like to talk. What's the problem with that?

If you think communication is all talking, you haven't been listening.

What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come from out luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis.

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them.

To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

Talking payes no toll.

Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.

I'm always talking to people. It's not that complicated. I just find somebody and say, "Do you have any ideas." If they do, we just start thinking things around.

Listen twice as much as you speak.

'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to."

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

Talking is good. Conversations have to be forever.

All the information you need can be given in dialogue.