Motivational Quotes

Listening

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

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Best Quotes about Listening

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

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

Dorothy Sarnoff

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

Cavett, Dick

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

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

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

Montgomery, Robert

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

Kin Hubbard

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

Erskine, John

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

Frank Tyger

10.

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

Glien, Germain G.

11.

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

12.

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

Plutarch

13.

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

Falls, Rebecca

14.

A person hears only what they understand.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

16.

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

Buren, Abigail Van

17.

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

Nick Diamos

18.

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.

19.

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

Tyger, Frank

20.

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

Marshall, John

22.

One who cares is one who listens.

Clarke, J. Richard

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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

24.

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

25.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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

28.

Never tell your story to a deaf man.

Proverb

29.

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

Hugo, Victor

30.

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

Mizner, Wilson

31.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

32.

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

Ernest Hemingway

33.

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

Moss, Richard

34.

Listen. Don't explain or justify.

Dyer, William G.

35.

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

Proverb, Jewish

36.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Calvin Coolidge

37.

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

Po Bronson

38.

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

Ward, William A.

40.

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

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

Matthau, Walter

43.

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

Katharine Whitehorn

44.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

48.

No one every listened themselves out of a job.

Coolidge, Calvin

49.

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

Imhoff, Roger G.

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

Epictetus