Esther Hicks Quotes

You've got to write for your audience.

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

I don’t believe in an answering questions that have not become relevant yet.

Why do you ask me a question like that, when you know you’re not going to get an answer that’s going to be useful to anyone?

It’s not what you say; it’s what people hear.

Whom we wish to talk to is as important as what we say.

Whether you work with your family or someone from outside, you can't take the audience for granted.

In general, I'd rather ask questions and look stupid than keep quiet and not understand what someone's talking about.

A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention

Selling is nothing more than asking questions and waiting for an answer.

When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.

You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.

Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the right questions. Most people aren't that much interested.

The art of conversation lies in listening.

You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.

Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.

If you are halfway smart, and you could really listen to the audience, you could really learn a lot.

I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening.

Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.

Instead of talking in the hope that people will listen, try listening in the hope that people will talk.