Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

I genuinely enjoy talking one-to-one. I have no shyness about that.

And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop?

A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.

... even the most sublimely accomplished non-stop talker can't consistently please.

You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself.

Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears.

I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up.

... all of us talk faster than we listen.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.

I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I don't think has anything to do with fiction.

I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.

Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person.

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Some people are very good at that, communicating with the world; I'm not sure I'm suited to it.

I have a tendency to trail off in conversations. I don't look up at people sometimes when I talk or cook, and those are all pretty bad no-no's being in front of the camera.

Talking, being a better talker, wouldn't have been that hard. It was just, I was just naturally gifted at other things.

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

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

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

Communication is the most important skill in life. We spend most of our waking hours communicating. But consider this: You've spent years learning how to read and write, years learning how to speak. But what about listening?

Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.

If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.