Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most of us are most of the time chiefly concerned with getting our own views across, and we tend to find other people's speeches a tedious interruption of the flow of our own ideas.

In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in a different way.

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.

Listen twice as much as you speak.

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective, and learns more and does more good. And so try listening. Listen to your wife, your husband, your father, your mother, your children, your friends; to those who love you and those who don't, to those who bore you, to your enemies. It will work a small miracle. And perhaps a great one.

Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.

There’s a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively.

Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings. The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking our words more seriously and discovering their true selves.

The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

What I hear all the time is to stop and listen. When you do a scene 30 times, and know the lines, you stop listening. The point is to listen, that's the only thing that can make it real.

He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.

For maximum impact, listen more and speak less.

There is a craft and a power in listening.

I've learned to listen in all aspects of life, in all relationships and communications. The biggest lesson is to listen.

People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

If you want to become a better listener, however you need to learn to direct that energy and attention positively by concentrating on the person you're with.

Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.