Listening Quotes - Page 3

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

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Success, Talking

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• Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

  Pablo Casals

  Courage, Peace, Kindness

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

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• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Plato, Lying

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• The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Inspirational, Funny, Hope

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 24, 2010

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• I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

  George Carlin

  Death, Suicide, Humorous

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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

  Dick Cavett

  Listening To Others, Rare Person, Want

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• To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  William Ellery Channing, “My Symphony”

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

  Calvin Coolidge

  Life, Relationship, Wisdom

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• To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frightened.

  Robert C. Murphy

  Fall, Unique, Men

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• It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.

  Alexander Crummell

  Soul, Utterance, Ears

  Alexander Crummell, John R. Oldfield, Southern Texts Society (1995). “Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South”, p.152, University of Virginia Press

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• The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.

  Rachel Carson

  Writing, Discipline, Stills

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of respect. It makes people feel valued.

  Deborah Tannen

  Mean, Ideas, People

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• No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wish, Newspapers, Knows

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• Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

  Emma Thompson

  Dream, Space, Goal

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• It takes a great man to make a great listener

  Arthur Helps

  Men, Empathy, Understanding

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• When you are deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand things which cannot be articulated.

  David A. Cooper

  Empathy, Understanding, Contemplative

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• The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Perfect, Effort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.139

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• But I like to listen to demos. I like to hear the finished product. It's like listening to a song - I mean, a story. If you're going to sit here and tell me a story, I just like to listen. I don't want to make them up.

  Reba McEntire

  Song, Mean, Stories

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• While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

  Walter Lippmann

  Important, May

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• Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

  Carl Rogers

  Men, Effective Listening, Empathy

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• Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Teenage, Blessing, Thinking

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• I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

  Livy

  Men, Thinking, Advice

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• The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

  Stephen Levine

  Attention, Being Human, Gifts Of Life

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• The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.

  Jessica Savitch

  Writing, Looks, Literature

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• In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.

  Walter Scott

  Guardian, Mood, Strands

  Sir Walter Scott (1849). “Select Poetical Works: Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, Lady of the Lake and Rokeby”

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