The art of conversation lies in listening.
Interpretation
Effective conversation requires active listening rather than just speaking.
The quote emphasizes that true conversation is not just about sharing one's thoughts, but rather about listening attentively to others. By valuing the input of others, we enrich our discussions and foster deeper understanding and connection.
In practice
During a team meeting, you can use this quote to encourage team members to listen to each other's ideas.
Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
If you never budge, don't expect a push.
It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.
Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues -- communicating with an audience.
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.
The only thing that guarantees an open-ended collaboration among human beings, the only thing that guarantees that this project is truly open-ended, is a willingness to have our beliefs and behaviors modified by the power of conversation.
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.
I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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