Listening To Others Quotes

• One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Inspirational, Respect, Effective Listening

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• The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Powerful, Silence, Kitchen Table

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Life, Music, Beautiful

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• Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Leadership, Judgment

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• Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Giving, Silence, Important

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

  Dick Cavett

  Rare Person, Want, Favourite

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• A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

  Wilson Mizner

  Relationship, Positive, Success

  Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)

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

  Epictetus

  Kindness, Communication, Compassion

  "The Golden Sayings of Epictetus" by Epictetus, translated by Hastings Crossley, Vol. II, Part 2, The Harvard Classics. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1909.

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

  Christopher Isham

  Love, Attitude, Healing

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• The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Thinking, Agreement, People

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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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  The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Leadership, Patriotic, Voice

  Woodrow Wilson (1965). “The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Love, Inspirational, Powerful

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

  Joyce Brothers

  Inspirational, Memorable, Empathy

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang (p. 469), 2006.

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• Attentive listening to others lets them know that you love them and builds trust, the foundation of a loving relationship.

  Brian Tracy

  Foundation, Loving Relationships, Knows

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Universal Laws of Success”, p.18, Jaico Publishing House

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• The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention

  Richard Moss

  Educational, Communication, Wrestling

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• It takes a great man to be a good listener.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Life, Relationship, Wisdom

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• Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

  John P. Kotter

  Communication, Heart, Mind

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• The greatest gift you can give another person is strength.

  Caroline Myss

  Inspirational, Giving, Purity

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2014

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• Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the dance of love is begun again.

  M. Scott Peck

  Acceptance, Love Is, Speak Less

  M. Scott Peck (2012). “The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth”, p.116, Random House

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• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.

  Brenda Ueland

  Tired, People, Creative

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Bores You, Effective Listening, Boredom

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 37

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• In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch-that is, who should be listened to and when.

  Max De Pree

  Effective Listening, Leader, Culture

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• There are two things that really move me: music and acting. And I'm not talking about my music or watching myself as an actor, but listening to other people's music and watching other actors. There are so many different songs that have moved me. It all depends upon the mood that I'm in at that moment.

  Janet Jackson

  Song, Moving, Talking

  "Janet Jackson– Janet in control". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. April 1, 2010.

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