Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Interviewing people is pretty natural for me.

When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

I like working with people. I like talking to people.

I have learnt an enormous amount from talking to people on the ground.

My problem is that I love talking to people. I remember working in a call centre in Dalston and I'd end up having these long chats with old women.

Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.

The silence between us stretched out, but it wasn't awkward. Sometimes there are people you can be quiet with, and you never feel the need to fill the gap with meaningless chit-chat. I'd only become that close to a couple people in my hometown, and I'd always thought it took years. Lucas and I were already there.

Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of it. Sid Baxter was generous because he knew that life was long. It went on and on even when you had no use for it anymore. It was happiness, not life, that was short, and when it visited - in the form of a fine evening spent talking with a friend - he honoured it.

Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

I'm more likely to not invite someone back for not talking. If someone talks a lot, I can usually shut them up and control them. But with people who don't talk, if they don't really want to talk, they probably shouldn't be on this show, and that's fine. They're talented people with things to say, but sometimes people say what they have to say through other means than arguing.

People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That's why I do all the talking.

And be silent for the most part, or else make only the most necessary remarks, and express these in few words. But rarely, and when occasion requires you to talk, talk, indeed, but about no ordinary topics. Do not talk about gladiators, or horseraces, or athletes, or things to eat or drink - topics that arise on all occasions; but above all, do not talk about people, either blaming, or praising, or comparing them.

It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.

I've just found the stories of the people I'm talking to much more interesting than my reactions to them.

One of the things I find most exciting is talking with people who are working with my work. Who are using it in some way with their life to address everyday politics of meaning.

I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters. But at the same time I care very much about my work and I would like people to know that it exists. So I appreciate that there's a meeting point, where I would like people to know about the work that I'm doing, and that requires me to talk about it.

Meeting the people. I love it. Just talking with people and sharing part of their lives for just a few moments ... I get love and appreciation and I hope I give them the same.

If you are not able to be silent, you will not be able to speak well.

Having the privilege of sitting down and having 3 hour long uninterrupted conversations with hundreds of brilliant people is an awesome perspective enhancer.