"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."

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Source : George Cooper Stevens, John Mason Brown (1974). “Speak for yourself, John: the life of John Mason Brown, with some of his letters and many of his opinions”, Viking Adult

Guy Kawasaki

#Business Quotes #Mark Quotes #Good Conversation Quotes

“Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth...”
“You're not going to make me have a bad day. If there's oxygen on earth and I'm breathing, it's going to be a good day..”
“But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.”
“We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.”

Source : "Pump-house of the heart" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2003.
“I wrote a one-act play - I can't remember the name of it, but it was really about the way women are perceived as leaders. In the play, Catherine the Great would say things like, "You know, John F. Kennedy had extramarital affairs and no one says anything. But I bang one horse and now I'm a horse banger for all eternity? That's it? That's what I am?"”
“It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the European mind." The author of the remark probably meant to assert that a man or a system may have become famous on the continent, while we are almost ignorant of the name of the man and the claims of his system. Perhaps, however, a wider range might be given to the assertion. An exploded theory or a disadvantageous practice, like a rebel or a patriot in distress, seeks refuge on our shores to spend its last days in comfort if not in splendour.”

Source : Isaac Todhunter (1873). “The Conflict of Studies and Other Essays on Subjects Connected with Education”, p.136, London : Macmillan
“I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.”
“I don't play racing games, unless it's 'Mario Kart.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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