Listening Quotes

It's important to work through things in a relationship. You can't just give up because you're frustrated. It's most important to talk things through together. And that, for me, has been the way I've best resolved problems in the past.

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.

You ain't learning nothing when you're talking.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.

I mostly listen to things that are so different because there's something so intriguing about trying to understand where someone is coming from.

To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to change, or even better learn to benefit from change and grow intellectually and personally. That means careful listening and constant learning.

Think a lot, say little, and write nothing.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession.

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it

'Focusing' is no conventional repackaging of self-help wisdom. It is at once a manual and a philosophy. It talks about the body's wisdom, the steps of the focusing technique, how to discover the richness in others by learning to listen.

You make more friends by becoming interested in other people than by trying to interest other people in yourself.

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

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

Since I was a kid, I was listening to hip-hop.