Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
My wife Patrice, in addition to being enormously supportive, has taught me a lot about life. She might argue it's because I have so much to learn. One of the most important things I've learned is the art of listening.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Often it is important to listen to what people aren't saying.
In a perfect world, I would never give another speech, address, talk, lecture or whatever as long as I live.
The long history of conversations that family members share contributes not only to how listeners interpret words but also to how speakers choose them.
We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.
You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.
Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.