S.I. Hayakawa Quote
Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.
S.I. Hayakawa
Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.
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About S.I. Hayakawa
Hayakawa was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to Japanese immigrants. Hayakawa advocated for Japanese Canadian voting rights in the 1930s. In the 1950s he became a professor at the University of Chicago before moving to teach English at San Francisco State College. After becoming acting president of San Francisco State College, Hayakawa became a conservative icon after he pulled out the wires from the loudspeakers on student protesters' van at an outdoor rally.
Hayakawa defeated incumbent Democratic senator John V. Tunney in 1976, becoming the first Asian American Senator from California. Hayakawa supported former California governor Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential election. He initially sought reelection in 1982 but bowed out of the race due to a lack of funds. Republican Pete Wilson succeeded Hayakawa in the US Senate.