Hoda Kotb Quotes

It's important to learn how to have conversations with other people where it's not debating but discussing.

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

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

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

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

I think I am quite a good listener.

I'm a pretty good listener.

I'm a very good listener. I think that's one of the things that makes me a good producer. But it's a challenge for me because my custom is to listen and absorb what someone is saying and take it in, and not necessarily comment.

I definitely learned a lot about how to be more communicative with my crews.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

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

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

I remember Chris Cooper saying to me - I was doing October Sky with him - and he said, "You know, you're just yelling at me." He's like, "You're just yelling. You need to listen." We were in a fight, and you know, oh you'd get so excited as an actor, you're like, "We have a fight, oh, I get to get mad." And he just said, "You need to listen." And I started listening - and then all of a sudden where I was listening was where, I don't know, anger became something else.

Communication is the ability to ensure that people understand not only what you say but also what you mean. It is also the ability to listen to and understand others. Developing both of these aspects of communication takes a lot of time, patience, and hard work.

Listen twice as much as you speak.

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.

Effective communication is fascinating to me yet bad communication is just as fascinating. There are lessons to be learned from both. I can't say I am a natural communicator, it's taken a lot of work to be able to develop content relevant to the audience and deliver it with credibility. My initial natural ability tended to be more around the visual display of information. For years I was more comfortable visualizing other people's great thinking. I preferred to be hidden behind the curtain than a thinker myself.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.

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

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.

Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying.

I can be a good listener. I can ask the right questions a lot of the time.

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