“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

“People talk when they think no one is listening.”

“MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk.HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal.MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen!”

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

“Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”

“The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.”