Memorable Listening Quotes

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"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other."
Brenda Ueland
"The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success."
James Cash Penney
"There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing."
G.K. Chesterton
"Listening is often the only thing needed to help someone."
Anonymous
"Spend more time listening than talking; you'll be wiser for it."
Anonymous
"You can learn a lot from listening. When you listen, you open up your ability to take in more knowledge versus just spewing out what you already know."
Simon Sinek
"Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words."
Roy T. Bennett
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"Listening is being able to hear what the other person is saying, and not just waiting for your turn to speak."
Earl Nightingale
"Listening means taking a second to put yourself in the other person's shoes."
Anonymous
"Great listeners are often great leaders."
Anonymous
"Listen twice as much as you speak - that's why we have two ears and one mouth."
Anonymous
"Listening is an art that requires attention over talent, spirit over ego, and others over self."
Dean Jackson
"Listening is a universal language of peace."
Hofmeister
"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention."
Richard Moss
"Listening is more than simply hearing the words that are being spoken. It's about truly understanding the message behind the words."
Simon Sinek
"If you want to be heard, listen."
Bryant H. McGill
"Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine interest in others."
Anonymous
"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward."
Karl A. Menninger
"The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear."
Mark Nepo
"The greatest gift you can give someone is the courtesy of your attention."
Jim Rohn
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"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear."
Rumi
"Listening is the key to understanding the heart of another."
Sue Patton Thoele
"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."
Epictetus
"Listening is an active art, an act of creation. You have to be alert and silent at the same time."
Deepak Chopra
"The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room, not try... lightning-fast intellect."
May Sarton
"The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard."
William Hazlitt
"To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well."
John Marshall
"Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance or with impressing the other, or are trying to decide what you are going to say when the other stops talking, or are debating about whether what is being said is true or relevant or agreeable."
Carl Rogers
"The more you listen to others, the more you earn respect."
Tapan Ghosh
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something."
Wilson Mizner
"We have been given two ears and but a single mouth in order that we may hear more and talk less."
Zeno of Citium
"Listen to your elders' advice. Not because they are always right, but because they have more experience at being wrong."
Unknown
"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
Elbert Hubbard
"One of the most sincere forms of respect is listening to what another has to say."
Bryant H. McGill
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"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."
Doug Larson
"To be a good listener is as indispensable as to be a good talker."
Thornton Wilder
"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply."
Stephen R. Covey
"Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity."
Roy T. Bennett
"Listen and silent are spelled with the same letters. Think about it."
Unknown
"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood."
Ralph Nichols
"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."
Ernest Hemingway
"Respect is listening to what another has to say, no matter how boring it might be."
Unknown
"Ears that don't listen to advice, accompany the head when it is chopped off."
African Proverb
"The art of conversation lies in listening."
Malcolm Forbes
"Listening not only means hearing what is being said but also understanding it."
Unknown
"The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people."
Woodrow Wilson
"The art of being a good listener is essential for success in life and business."
Heidi Metcalf-Lauterbach
"People start to heal the moment they feel heard."
Cheryl Richardson
"Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you."
Unknown
"Listening is the beginning of understanding. Wisdom is the reward of a lifetime of listening."
Unknown
"Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you."
Unknown
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."
Francis Bacon
"Listening is an act of love, a silent force that makes us feel connected."
Jelaluddin Rumi
"To listen is to be fully present, without judgment or distraction."
Unknown
"The art of conversation lies in listening as much as speaking."
Epictetus
"Listen to understand, not to reply."
Anonymous
"A good listener is someone who truly cares."
Unknown
"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force."
Karl A. Menninger
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals."
J. Isham
"The first duty of love is to listen."
Paul Tillich
"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand, they listen with the intent to reply."
Stephen R. Covey
"Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet."
Krista Tippett
"To listen well, is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well."
John Marshall
"Listening is an art that requires attention over talent, spirit over ego, others over self."
Dean Jackson
"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting."
Fran Lebowitz
"Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply."
Roy T. Bennett
"Listening is being able to be changed by the other person."
Alan Alda
"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."
Ram Dass
"If you make listening and observation your occupation, you will gain much more than you can by talk."
Robert Baden-Powell
"Listen to many, speak to a few."
William Shakespeare
"Big egos have little ears."
Robert Schuller
"Listening is a master skill for personal and professional greatness."
Robin Sharma
"One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say."
Bryant H. McGill
"Listening is not a reaction, it is a connection."
Katie Kacvinsky
"Listening is the mark of a good leader."
John C. Maxwell
"Listening is an act of love."
Dave Isay
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
Winston Churchill
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