A Quote by Dale Carnegie

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

Dale Carnegie

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Dale Carnegie
American - Writer
November 24, 1888 - November 1, 1955

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.

Tom Segura

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

Jesse Ventura

I'm very thankful, hearing impairment or not, that I've brought listening into my life. I will never say that I'm a good listener, however. Thinking that I was a good listener was one thing that kept me from being a good listener. It's a very dangerous thought. I just want to be better.

Gordon Hempton

I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simply try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually welcome wherever they go

Frank Bettger

In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.

Karen Salmansohn

So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments

Dale Carnegie

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

Katharine Whitehorn

[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.

Winston Churchill

I'm a very good listener, and I'm not interested in having fights simply for a question of protocol or vanity.

Cesar Pelli

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?

Susan Straight

The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.

Guy Kawasaki

You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!

Steve Martin

The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of humor and 3) That he is a good listener.

Steven Sample

I'm extremely interested in art, every form of art, but I'm interested in it when it's good and interested in it when it's interesting.

Brie Larson

The challenge for a good musician is to bring out compositions that seem fresh to the listener, even if the listener has heard the song or the composition before.

Ilaiyaraaja

It is almost axiomatic that the best conversationalist is really the best listener.

Arlene Francis

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