Sunday:
"The importance of being a good listener, showing the other person you are sincerely interested in what he is saying, and giving him all the eager attention and appreciation that he craves and is so hungry for, but seldom gets!"
Frank Bettger
Monday:
"Try looking straight into the face of the next person who speaks to you, with eager, absorbed interest, and see the magic effect it has both on yourself, and the one who is doing the talking."
Frank Bettger
Tuesday:
"Cicero said two thousand years ago: 'There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too'."
Frank Bettger
Wednesday:
"Do you ever sense, when talking to someone, that what you are saying is not making much of impression? I found many times people heard me all right, but they weren't listening. The effect of my talking was zero, as far as they were concerned. So I said to myself: "The next time you are talking to a man and this happens stop! Stop right in the middle of a sentence! 'Sometimes I stop right in the middle of a word. I find people regard it as a courtesy. They are never offended. Nine times out ten, they have something on their minds that they would like to say. And if they do, they won't pay any attention to what we're saying anyhow, until they have got in their two-cent's worth."
Frank Bettger
Thursday:
"Considering that in conversation knowledge was obtained rather by the use of the ears than of the tongue, I gave Silence second place among the virtues I determined to cultivate."
Benjamin Franklin
Friday:
"The shortcut to popularity is to lend everyone your ears, instead of giving them your tongue. There is nothing you can possibly say to an individual that would be half as interesting to him as the thing he is dying to tell you about himself. And all you need, in order to get the reputation of being a fascinating companion is to say: 'How wonderful! Do tell me some more.'"
Dorothy Dix
Saturday:
"I no longer worry about being a brillant converstionalist. I simply try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually welcome wherever they go."
Frank Bettger
No comments:
Post a Comment