Mario Cuomo Quotes

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there's not build up. I think that's probably the best way to do it.

We can argue and we can disagree, but we don’t need to poke our fingers in each other’s eyes in order to get our points across.

Skillful conversationalists can explore disagreements and make points in ways that feel constructive and positive rather than combative or corrective.

I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.

I think I am quite a good listener.

I feel like I'm a good listener.

In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.

If you let things devolve into a shouting match, then it's really difficult to have a discussion, a serious discussion.

I can talk, I can express myself. But many times when people are talking just to talk, to say negative things, I don't like it because this is not a negative sport.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.

If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time.

There are a lot of things that need to be done to improve communications.

Decades of research have shown that most happy families communicate effectively. But talking doesn't mean simply 'talking through problems,' as important as that is. Talking also means telling a positive story about yourselves.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

If you have an ongoing relationship with a person, think of everything positive about that person that you possibly can and enter your interaction from that space. Ignore all the crap that used to drive you up the wall before. You will be amazed at what a change this attitude shift brings about.

It's not necessary with your friends to discuss something you know you will disagree profoundly on.