Motivational Quotes

Listening

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

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Listening

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.

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

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

Hugo, Victor

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Calvin Coolidge

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

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

Falls, Rebecca

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

Matthau, Walter

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

Kin Hubbard

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

Buren, Abigail Van

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

Glien, Germain G.

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

Erskine, John

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Never tell your story to a deaf man.

Proverb

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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

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

Montgomery, Robert

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

Epictetus

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A person hears only what they understand.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Frank Tyger

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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.

Moss, Richard

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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!

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

Katharine Whitehorn

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

Proverb, Jewish

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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

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As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

Po Bronson

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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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One who cares is one who listens.

Clarke, J. Richard

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Listen. Don't explain or justify.

Dyer, William G.

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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

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

Ernest Hemingway

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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?

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Margaret Cho

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

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