Christopher Morley Quotes

Listen more than you talk.

I think I am quite a good listener.

It's so easy to butt into a conversation and offer your own thoughts or opinions, but try not to interrupt. Instead, focus on what the other person is saying, think twice and be the person that listens. It's so much more valuable than constantly talking.

I think I'm a pretty good listener.

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

Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. ...I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories.

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

I've always been very aware of what I'm saying, but I'm also aware of what you're saying. I always want to make sure that my point is clear.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

I'm a pretty good listener.

I often talk too much and don't listen enough.

In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.

Listen more than you speak.

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.

I don't think you can be a good listener unless you're a good listener. I think it's something that you really have to do, and if you really do it, then you can do it. If you don't do it, then you can't do it.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

I'm a darned good listener.

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

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

This is the first lesson for writers - or anyone - who conducts interviews: If you want someone to talk, you've got to know how to listen. And good listening is a surprisingly active process. The interviewee is your focus of attention; you are there to hear what he says and thinks, exclusively.

It’s important for me to hear others position and understand them.

[John F.] Kennedy was a great listener. As he listened his eyes got larger, and he looked at you, and you knew you had been looked at and listened to.