Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

I'm really interested in how we understand each other - and whether we can understand each other.

The more people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view.

The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.

It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.

Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.

There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

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?

Don’t talk to the people until you’ve listened to the people.

In order to practice dialogue, you need to be able to set aside your assumptions and try to listen more than you want to talk. It's not always politically correct to be able to do that, but it can give you a better sense of the reality.

I think, to be a great conversationalist, you need to be interested in being in said conversation. Oddly enough, I think you need to be a great listener, and I do think I'm a good listener. I think that's my asset - I always listen to people when I talk to them, and that's a big thing you have to have in life and in podcasts.

Engagement is always better then disengagement. If we don't talk, somebody else will.

Life is a conversation. Make it a good one.