Phyllis Bottome Quotes

My best quality is that I talk to everyone. My worst quality is that I talk to everyone.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

My problem is that I love talking to people. I remember working in a call centre in Dalston and I'd end up having these long chats with old women.

Listen more than you talk.

As a kid, I was told to talk as much as possible.

I don't like going to the movies with people that talk a lot. They want to have a conversation or something.

There is nothing I hate more than meeting someone who has forgotten the art of conversing.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink - that's one less connection you could have made.

I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

He loves people, but even more than that he loves to talk to people.

I think an office is just a microcosm of life and the different kinds of people that you will come across and interactions there, and I think if you all sit in a room together, then it gets a bit more intense and fun for people to watch, maybe.

People that don't talk are constipated. I'm sorry, but if you can't communicate, what do you have? You have nothing.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

I like talking to visitors, especially children.

I was always a talker. You just don't wake up one morning and say, I think I want to talk a little more.' Some are better at it than others.

I'm not really good at asking people questions in interviews. I just try to have fun, to talk.

talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

I mean I certainly like when I'm like talking to people I'm like what did you think, what did you think, what did you think? You know that's always in the back of my head.

I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

It's tremendously important how you get on with the other sex. Your life record on that is incredibly important. You never really think about any of your other achievements.

Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

Conversation makes one what he is.

Girl talk. That thing I've always been so bad at.