A Quote by Jesse Ventura

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

Jesse Ventura

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Quote Author

Jesse Ventura
American - Politician
Born: July 15, 1952

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

To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking.

Brad Listi

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

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

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

Dale Carnegie

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

It's not easy, but I truly that think being a good listener is an important part of being a good journalist.

Emily Chang

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

Richard Branson

It’s like someone who prays every night saying God’s a good listener. Just because you’re talking to us doesn’t mean we’re listening. With me and God, you never really know.

Paul Neilan

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

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Robin McKinley

People always say 'They [teens] need a good talking to.' I've never agreed with that. A kid needs a good listening to.

Naomi Judd

I really believe being a good listener is important for anybody, and particularly for somebody who wants to be a leader.

Hillary Clinton

Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist.