listening

1.

A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.

- Kavanagh, Patrick

2.

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

- Ward, William A.

3.

After listening to a lecture on evolution by a science professor, a student wrote a poem and titled it The Amazing Professor. The poem read: Once I was a tadpole when I began to begin. Then I was a frog with my tail tucked in. Next I was a monkey on a coconut tree. Now I am a doctor with a Ph.D.

4.

Opera once was an important social instrument -- especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.

- Berio, Luciano

5.

A person hears only what they understand.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans.

- Askew, Ruben

7.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

8.

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.

- West, Jessamyn

9.

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

10.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

- Hansell B. Duckett

12.

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

13.

One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.

- Falls, Rebecca

14.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

- Baruch, Bernard M.

15.

My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge-and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

- Steven Spielberg

16.

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.

17.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

- Calvin Coolidge

18.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

- Harriet Lerner

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Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

- Eliot, George

20.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

- Rebecca West