Bashir Assad Quotes

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

People love to talk but hate to listen.

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

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

The art of conversation lies in listening.

Listen with an open ear is the first, most important thing to do. From there, if people feel like learning more, that's when you can kind of go deeper.

I think one of the things I really learned in Denver is the value of being a good listener.

I definitely learned a lot about how to be more communicative with my crews.

Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.

The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation.

What I've really learned is to be open to listen to other people's opinions and then question my own thoughts. And learn how to talk to people. The biggest gift from having one of these moments is that it gets people talking.

...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.

Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.

Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

I speak to people in the languagethey understand. First I have a dialogue, if that is not understood I speak inanother language. There is no remedy for this.

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

I remember Chris Cooper saying to me - I was doing October Sky with him - and he said, "You know, you're just yelling at me." He's like, "You're just yelling. You need to listen." We were in a fight, and you know, oh you'd get so excited as an actor, you're like, "We have a fight, oh, I get to get mad." And he just said, "You need to listen." And I started listening - and then all of a sudden where I was listening was where, I don't know, anger became something else.

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.

Listen more often than you speak.

To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.

We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.

The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information.