Mitch Albom Quotes

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

Demetrius was wont to say that there was no difference between the words and speech of the unskilled and ignorant and the sounds and rumblings caused by the stomach being full of superfluous wind. This he said, not without reason, for, as he held, it did not in the least matter from what part of them the voice emanated, whether from the lower parts or the mouth, since the one and the other were of equal worth and importance.

Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.

We live in a society in which it seems that every space, every moment must be 'filled' with initiatives, activity, sound; often there is not even time to listen and dialogue... Let us not be afraid to be silent outside and inside ourselves, so that we are able not only to perceive God's voice, but also the voice of the person next to us, the voices of others.

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

I always defined myself in terms of my talkativeness, and being without a voice hits me in a number of ways.

Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

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

I really don't talk much.

I don't talk a lot.

You can't just get in a boat with someone and be great straight away. It takes a lot of time to get used to each other. You need to learn how the other person reacts to certain situations.

You don't want to be one of these guys talking all the time, trying to say things all the time, because people start drowning you out.

We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven.

Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.