Good Listeners Quote by Tom Perrotta

“Know what your listeners care about, so you can tailor your communication to them.”

— Chip Heath

“I don't know how it all at once came to me to talk a lot, tell jokes, kick up, and suddenly have views. When…

— Saul Bellow

“Sometimes it could be extremely hard to tell it like it was, especially when whoever you were talking to didn't want to hear how…

— Kathryn Ormsbee

“One of the most positive things that has come of that communication is I have been able to see how much I have grown.…

— Paula Heller Garland

“People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was.”

— Alice Hoffman

“Sometimes it is good to listen and not say anything.”

— Bhagya Chandra

“Impassioned in his gesticulation, his voice persuasive, his smile fascinating, his reasoning clear and consequential, he held his listeners fast for all the time…

— Umberto Eco

“Be patient with everyone you meet, for you may never know whether your words were the last they ever heard.”

— L.J. Kane

“His head was on one side, listening to me, and that was such sweeness to me, that he listened intently. No one, it seemed,…

— Sue Woolfe

“I always felt that there was something different about me but I did not know what it was. I was socially awkward, friendship was…

— Stephen J. Bedard

“She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sitting in other people's lives just for a…

— Katherine Mansfield

“He often said that words told them what someone was thinking, but the tone told them how they felt.”

— Louise Penny