Motivational Quotes

Listening

Listen. Don't explain or justify.

- Dyer, William G.

Best Quotes about Listening

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

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

Erskine, John

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

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

Po Bronson

To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Ernest Hemingway

A person hears only what they understand.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Plutarch

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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One who cares is one who listens.

Clarke, J. Richard

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A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

Kin Hubbard

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

Nick Diamos

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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.

20.

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

Moss, Richard

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

Glien, Germain G.

23.

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

Dorothy Sarnoff

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

Buren, Abigail Van

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

26.

Listen. Don't explain or justify.

Dyer, William G.

27.

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

Matthau, Walter

28.

No one every listened themselves out of a job.

Coolidge, Calvin

29.

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

30.

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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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?

32.

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

Cavett, Dick

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

Ward, William A.

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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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Mignon McLaughlin

39.

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

Montgomery, Robert

40.

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

Frank Tyger

42.

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

43.

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

Epictetus

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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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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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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.