Listening Quotes

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.

A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

You can practice deep listening in order to relieve the suffering in us, and in the other person. That kind of listening is described as compassionate listening. You listen only for the purpose of relieving suffering in the other person.

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

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

My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. 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.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals.

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

I want to spend less time talking about myself, and more time listening to what other people have to say about me.

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

Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention.