If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. When people talk, listen completely.
Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. Aldous Huxley Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. Mignon McLaughlin Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.