Richard Armour Quotes

Communicating with a man is a very new experience for me.

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Girls didn't really take much interest in me until I was about 14. But I knew how to talk to them very quickly. What I figured out - that my friends didn't - was you have to talk to women like you're not constantly trying to have sex with them. That seemed to work.

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

It illustrates vividly my incapacity of knowing when to be silent and when to speak.

People that don't talk are constipated. I'm sorry, but if you can't communicate, what do you have? You have nothing.

I think communication should be fun and that we should all worry less about how we say things and more about what we say.

Conversation makes one what he is.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent.

Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!

Listen more than you talk.

There is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

I talk to women for a living. It's pretty much what I do with my day.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.

It's no secret that I love to talk, but the real secret is I love to listen, too.