50 Quotes About Listening – Keep Your Ears Open!
Looking for the best quotes about listening? These 50 epic listening quotes will show you what true listening is all about.
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QUOTES ABOUT LISTENING
1 – I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening. Larry King
2 – You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. M. Scott Peck
3 – Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. Stephen R. Covey
4 – We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less. Diogenes
5 – To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It’s a sign of respect. It makes people feel valued. Deborah Tannen
6 – Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk. Doug Larson
7- I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions. Lee Iacocca
8 – The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said. Peter Drucker
9 – Listen with your eyes as well as your ears. Graham Speechley
10 – When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new. Dalai Lama
QUOTES ABOUT LISTENING
11 – People will generally do something you want if they are invested in you or if they will end up gaining something from carrying out the request. Either way, you need to take the time to listen in order to find out what the person needs. Sven Imholz
12 – If you make listening and observation your occupation, you will gain much more than you can by talk. Robert Baden-Powell
13 – The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent. Alfred Brendel
14 – Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet. Krista Tippett
15 – Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer. Ed Cunningham
16 – Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It’s being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond. Richard Carlson
17- In addition to comforting, you can help in another way, too – by listening. Robbie Miller Kaplan
18 – Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet. Krista Tippett
19 – Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening. Jeanette Winterson
20 – To learn through listening, practice it naively and actively. Naively means that you listen openly, ready to learn something, as opposed to listening defensively, ready to rebut. Listening actively means you acknowledge what you heard and act accordingly. Betsy Sanders
QUOTES ABOUT LISTENING
21 – The most basic of all human needs is to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them. Ralph Nichols
22 – When we listen, we hear someone into existence. Laurie Buchanan
23 – We cannot live our lives constantly looking back, listening back, lest we be turned to pillars of longing and regret, but to live without listening at all is to live deaf to the fullness of the music. Frederick Buechner
24 – When you talk to your child, mostly listen. Cindy Cashman
25 – The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said. Peter Drucker
26 – Another vitally important attribute along the road to wisdom in interpersonal success is to listen well, or what should be understood as active listening. Catherine Pulsifer
27- And in a world where there’s too much noise and not enough signal, listening is critical. Peter Shankman
28 – Like the fish with water, we take listening and speaking for granted. It’s time to change that – to bring listening and speaking to the forefront of educators’ minds and to purposefully teach the listening and speaking skills that are the foundation of so much of human interaction. Erik Palmer
29 – Slightly leaning towards the other person is an indication that you are actively listening, while leaning away may be interpreted as disinterest. Liam Jackson
30 – When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway
QUOTES ABOUT LISTENING
31 – I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening. Larry King
32 – You see pain with your eyes, but you sympathize with your ears. Sometimes the greatest way to serve someone is just by listening. Behind every need is a story. Rick Warren
33 – Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening, speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. Henri Nouwen
34 – Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk. Doug Larson
35 – Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can’t hear, and not bothering. A. A. Milne
36 – Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Winston Churchill
37- If you make listening and observation your occupation, you will gain much more than you can by talk. Robert Baden-Powell
38 – One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. Bryant H. McGill
39 – 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
40 – A lot of my best communication has come from listening. Corrina Thurston
QUOTES ABOUT LISTENING
41 – I can assure you that if you develop a habit and skill to listen better to others, they will like you better and they will listen to you more. Christian Olsen
42 – It is hard to listen when you are talking, or when you are thinking of a response! Catherine Pulsifer
43 – Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows? Joel Osteen
44 – Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking. Bernard Baruch
45 – Listening is an art that requires attention over talent, spirit over ego, others over self. Dean Jackson
46 – Listening is being able to be changed by the other person. Alan Alda
47- I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions. Lee Iacocca
48 – I listened more than I studied, therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed. Joseph Haydn
49 – I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway
50 – Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Karl A. Menniger
BONUS: When you deepen your understanding of a person’s world through a strong commitment to listen, understand, and communicate, it’s as if you are the person. The more you are the person, the deeper your understanding and respect for his or her world. Marilyn Atkinson
BONUS: The art of conversation lies in listening. Malcom Forbes
BONUS: Listen to understand rather than listen to respond. Barack Obama
Much love,
Frances Vidakovic
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