Frank Crowninshield Quotes

You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.

There are so many things admirable people do not understand.

To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more.

We don’t need a speaker; we need a listener!

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

If I have any strength that would be considered above average, it is that I can read people.

I think one of my strengths is kind of knowing people and getting a good read and a feel for what that person's strengths might be.

People love to talk but hate to listen.

Listening is a lamp that dispels the darkness of ignorance.

I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.

You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.

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

That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it.

Only when you understand people, they may understand you. So even though you do not say anything, if you understand people there is some communication.

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

I observe the world and the people surrounding me.

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

Listen more than you talk.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

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

So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

I have no message.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.