Quotes about listening

"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on listening
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"The less you talk, the more you're listened to."

Buren, Abigail Van on listening
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"It is a rare person who wants to hear want he doesn't want to hear."

Cavett, Dick on listening
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"One who cares is one who listens."

Clarke, J. Richard on listening
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"No one every listened themselves out of a job."

Coolidge, Calvin on listening
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"Listen. Don't explain or justify."

Dyer, William G. on listening
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"Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak."

Epictetus on listening
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"Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline."

Erskine, John on listening
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"One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories."

Falls, Rebecca on listening
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"Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!"

Freeman, James Dillet on listening
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"The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much."

Glien, Germain G. on listening
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"A person hears only what they understand."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on listening
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"People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on listening   

"Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it."

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De on listening
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"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

Hemingway, Ernest on listening
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"When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."

Hugo, Victor on listening
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"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on listening
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"Let others confide in you. It may not help you, but it surely will help them."

Imhoff, Roger G. on listening
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"So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on listening   

"Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on listening
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"When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say."

Lincoln, Abraham on listening
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"Listening well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well."

Marshall, John on listening   

"I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie."

Matthau, Walter on listening   

"No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why."

McLaughlin, Mignon on listening   

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something."

Mizner, Wilson on listening   

"The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on listening   

"Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?"

Montgomery, Robert on listening
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"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention."

Moss, Richard on listening
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"To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frightened."

Murphy, Robert C. on listening
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"Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it."

Nichols, Jack on listening   

"Set up the listening. Prepare who you are talking to for what you want them to hear. Get people to listen as a possibility rather than a problem."

Pancoast, Mal on listening   

"A new lens to look through. Hear the pain in people's speaking. People who have an ear to hear can hear. You will no longer tolerate what you used to tolerate. A second point of reality. Declare a new future. There are no right answers. There is no is. Give people breakdowns. It's the loving thing to do. What's being revealed here? Dogs don't have things wrong. Wrong disempowers people. Upsets indicate a right that's been violated. Notice when you are angry that you are the only one around. The only constant thing is you. Business is made up. It's invented. We invent our world through language. If it really turns you on, you may want to inform your face. There is no right way. A chair is only a chair because we say it's a chair."

Pancoast, Mal on listening   

"We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting."

Pascal, Blaise on listening   

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"Never tell your story to a deaf man."

Proverb on listening
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"A hungry stomach has no ears."

Proverb on listening   

"No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen."

Proverb, Jewish on listening
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"Give every man your ear, but few thy voice. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. [Hamlet]"

Shakespeare, William on listening
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"Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak."

Socrates on listening
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"The first duty of love is to listen."

Tillich, Paul on listening
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"Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly."

Tyger, Frank on listening