Motivational Quotes

Listening

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

- Ernest Hemingway

Best Quotes about Listening

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Margaret Cho

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

Dorothy Sarnoff

No one every listened themselves out of a job.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Listen. Don't explain or justify.

Dyer, William G.

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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

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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

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

Montgomery, Robert

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

Moss, Richard

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

Plutarch

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

Imhoff, Roger G.

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

Nick Diamos

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

Matthau, Walter

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A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

Kin Hubbard

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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

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

Ward, William A.

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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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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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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

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

Marshall, John

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

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Epictetus

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Cavett, Dick

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

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