Alice Duer Miller Quotes

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

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

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

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.

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.

Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.

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

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.

Listening to something is an act of surrender.

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.

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

Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond.

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.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. . . . If you want to influence someone, listen to what he says. . . . When he finishes talking, ask him about any points that you do not understand.

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.

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.

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.

Listening means forgetting yourself completely - only then can you listen.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

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.

[John F.] Kennedy was a great listener. As he listened his eyes got larger, and he looked at you, and you knew you had been looked at and listened to.