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.
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.
If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.
The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.
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.
Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence. That's why they look alike.
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.
The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.
I don't have any problems getting people to open up.
From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.
A man hears only what he understands.
I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.
You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener.
When I was in the recording studio, I needed to concentrate on what my voice was doing, which is rather difficult if you can't actually see what you are supposed to be singing.
It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing
Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
When I served as prime minister last time, I failed to prioritize my agenda. I was eager to complete everything at once, and ended my administration in failure. After resigning, for six years I traveled across the nation simply to listen.
Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
Listen twice as much as you speak.
