Peter Drucker Quotes

Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

Human communication above and beyond the words that we say is so nuanced. It makes it difficult to not only analyze the vocabulary you use but the intention behind it. That's something even humans have difficulty doing, let alone a robot.

The most important thing to do is really listen.

Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.

There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people's concerns. You can keep an open mind and still be perfectly strong.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.

It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue.

Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.

Listening speaks louder than words.

I think it's not about what you say; it's about what you don't say.

People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.

I think I am quite a good listener.

I'm a pretty good listener.

It's not just about the words you use, but the way you use them, and the message that puts over. Also your face too and the way you project your message. If you're telling the group to stay calm, be good, and you have beads of sweat dripping down your forehead, you're in trouble.

I just think there's a real art in listening. I need to listen.

When making documentaries, the most important thing I learned was to listen, observe gestures and facial expressions.

The easiest bit is when you're talking. It's listening that is so difficult. If you get out any Spencer Tracy film, you think, 'Wow, he's doing nothing, yet he's doing everything.'

No matter what you say in carefully chosen sentences, girls will detect both the spoken and unspoken messages.

The sheer act of listening speaks volumes that even a great speech can't communicate.

The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening.

Watch their hands, watch their eyes. Read eyes. No matter what a man is saying to you, it's not as important as what you can read in his eyes. The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's not telling you; the most important thing he has to say is what he's trying not to say.

% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.