Franz Kafka Quotes

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.

Communication is everything, especially as a doctor, you need to communicate with your patients.

In order to lead people, you have to get to know them.

If I don't have any other strength, I'm pretty good at building relationships.

I think one of my strengths is kind of knowing people and getting a good read and a feel for what that person's strengths might be.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.

Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be.

Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what you’re doing and feel all right about it, and you can do terrible work if you put them on the defense, which they all are at the beginning. You’ve got to take them off their defensive attitude and make them participate.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.

The beauty of social awareness is that a few simple adjustments to what you say can vastly improve your relationships with other people.

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.

I think there are a lot of successful people in this country who connect amazingly well with the American people and have - and one of the reasons they are successful is because they connect well.

What I do for a living is listen.

As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

We need to learn to observe and listen to people more to get to know them.

I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.

The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.

I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about.

You've got to be an observer. And you've got to take time to listen to people, talk, to watch what they do.

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

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

We sometimes think that the best doctors are the ones who have the most specialized knowledge or the fanciest degrees, but in fact, study upon study, including one published in the 'New England Journal of Medicine,' show that the best doctors are the ones who also know how to connect with their patients.