Listening And Hearing Quotes

• And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Differences, Listening, Hearing

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• I'm coming back to what you said about seeing and listening and hearing. I had to think of a remark that I heard yesterday, somebody came and said ' I saw you concert' Can we change the usage of, of this phrase please? And I hope that some of the people in our concert tonight will listen and even hear what we are doing!

  Alfred Brendel

  Thinking, Yesterday, People

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• There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

  Meg Cabot

  Differences, Knowing, Listening

  Twitter post from Feb 24, 2014

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• There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Differences, Listening, Hearing

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• I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

  Robert McCloskey

  Believe, Communication, Knowledge

  TV Guide, March 31, 1984.

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• The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

  Peter Drucker

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• 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.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.49, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Wisdom, Truth

  A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

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• To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the 'music,' but to the essence of the person speaking. You listen not only for what someone knows, but for what he or she is. Ears operate at the speed of sound, which is far slower than the speed of light the eyes take in. Generative listening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind's hearing to your ears' natural speed, and hear beneath the words to their meaning.

  Peter Senge

  Art, Mean, Eye

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• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Inspirational, Friendship, Music

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Relationship, Peace

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• Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

  Stephen Covey

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer.

  Ed Cunningham

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel and responding. That's the key to really honest, truthful, compelling performance.

  David Wenham

  Thinking, Keys, Two

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Being Happy, Retirement

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• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Smile, Appreciation, Kindness

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Being Happy, Appreciation

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• Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Ninety Nine, Listening, Singing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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