Motivational Quotes

Listening

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

- Margaret Cho

Best Quotes about Listening

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

Never tell your story to a deaf man.

Proverb

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

Kin Hubbard

Listen. Don't explain or justify.

Dyer, William G.

The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much.

Glien, Germain G.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

Buren, Abigail Van

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

Hugh Elliott

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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.

God gave us two ears and one mouth, so we can hear twice as much as we say.

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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.

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You can judge a good listener by asking the talker at the end of the conversation what the listener's position is on the topic. If the talker doesn't know, then the listener has probably done a good job of 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

14.

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

Mizner, Wilson

15.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Plutarch

16.

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

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Listening well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Marshall, John

18.

One who cares is one who listens.

Clarke, J. Richard

19.

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Proverb, Jewish

21.

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

Frank Tyger

22.

There is only one rule to become a good talker, learn how to listen.

23.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

24.

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

Erskine, John

25.

One of the hardest things to do in life is to listen without intent to reply.

26.

When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Hugo, Victor

27.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

Albert Guinon

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.

Epictetus

32.

Listening: A wise old owl sat in an oak. The longer he sat, the less he spoke. The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why can't we be like that wise old bird?

33.

No one every listened themselves out of a job.

Coolidge, Calvin

34.

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.

Nick Diamos

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.

Tyger, Frank

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It is a rare person who wants to hear want he doesn't want to hear.

Cavett, Dick

38.

When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut

39.

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

Montgomery, Robert

40.

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

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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

42.

His thoughts were slow. His words were few and never formed to glisten. But he was a joy to all his friends, you should have heard him LISTEN!

43.

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

Matthau, Walter

44.

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

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Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be!

Freeman, James Dillet

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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

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Let others confide in you. It may not help you, but it surely will help them.

Imhoff, Roger G.

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The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.