it is better social skills to listen more than talk. If you would read Dale Carnegies book How To Make Friends and Influence People, you will see this is a very common thread in there. Like he says no one is really interested in what you have to say they are interested in what they have to say. So if you listen to others with real interest you will make them like you. And of course if you listen to other people you will learn alot more than if you spend all your time talking- in which case you will not learn anything at all. So quiet people can often seem alot smarter than other people because they know so much more.
