Good Conversationalist Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I'm sitting, waiting to get on the freeway, and I'm waiting my ass off. I look over at the side of the road, and there's a hitchhiker with a sign and it says, 'Pick me up, and you can drive in the carpool lane.' I got to tell you, he was kind of smelly, but he was a good conversationalist.

Doug Benson

#3. Becoming a good conversationalist is all about developing good conversational habits. Habits that show who you are in an engaging way and encourage the other person to do the same.

Charlie Houpert

#4. If you can listen well, people will say you're a good conversationalist.

Stanley Bing

#5. I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

Alec Baldwin

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

Jesse Ventura

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

Dale Carnegie

#8. A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

John Mason Brown

#9. If you aspire to be a good conversationalist, 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

#10. It's difficult to find a good conversationalist.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#11. So if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, 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. Remember

Dale Carnegie

#12. Cosmopolitanism has offered me an ethical perspective and a conceptual framework with which to read the signs of our times as a theologian and intellectual who has a public responsibility for constantly offering a way to engage in this rapidly changing public world.

Namsoon Kang

#13. First figure out your partners, then figure out what ideas to pursue. The most important thing isn't the market you target, the product you develop or the financing, but the founding team.

James C. Collins

#14. [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

#15. No matter how together we are, no matter how many friends or kids or partners or dogs or goats we have, there are always moments where we not only feel alone, but lonely.

Kris Radish

#16. I want to live so fully in the Spirit that ... every act of my life may be an act of worship.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#17. Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way.

Gloria Steinem

#18. I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know why. I don't like hot weather, and I don't like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I'd love to go check it out.

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

#19. 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

#20. Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.

Marie Chapian

#21. There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

Janette Turner Hospital

#22. Until the hen makes a distinctive plan for the eggs, the chicken don't get hatched [ref Directions In Production Engineering Research, Part II]

Priyavrat Thareja

#23. 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

#24. The melodies were melodies that anybody could sing or hum or whistle. And the words were just about that simple. I think the stories Hank told in his song fit so many people. Nearly everybody in the audience acted as if Hank were singin to them alone.

Don Helms

#25. My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.

Hill Harper

#26. We don't need any more teachers. We don't. We need friends.

Elizabeth Lesser