Welcome to our curated collection of quotes about listening. We hope you enjoy pondering them, please share widely, and please link back to us. With that, we'll be quiet, and listen... if you know of any good quotes we are missing, please let us know.
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
Wrong perceptions cannot be removed by guns and bombs. They should be removed by deep listening, compassionate listening, and loving space.
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.
Effective listening is something that can absolutely be learned and mastered. Even if you find attentive listening difficult and, in certain situations, boring or unpleasant, that doesn't mean you can't do it. You just have to know what to work on.
The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it.
In today's climate, listening is so compelling because it is so rare. Give the gift of listening to the kid in your life. Put down your phone and have a real conversation. Get to know him. Look him in the eyes.
The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.
No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.
Let your body call you back into yourself, into your most deeply embodied self. Land, dive, soar. Find the crumbs that lead back home.
When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.
When we genuinely want to listen, we are bound to hear, as well as be heard.
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.
To be agreeable you must learn to be a good listener. A man who monopolizes a conversation is a bore, no matter how great his knowledge.
When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.
In Africa, listening is a guiding principle. It's a principle that's been lost in the constant chatter of the Western world, where no one seems to have the time or even the desire to listen to anyone else.
Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they're really not listening, or they're listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they're so right that they're not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world.
Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.
The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.
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.
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.
Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers.
Listening to other people's needs is listening to God. Noticing simple, natural beauty, hearing music, even confronting the challenge of pain and problems -- that can all be listening to God too.
Anyone who takes the time to listen is either an old soul or a romantic one.
There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.
Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention.
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.
One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.
I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.
Again and again one can listen: this is my opinion, I think this or that... As if it matters, what one or the other thinks! The point is much more to what the truth is!
When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.
As a doctor, I've learned the importance and value of listening.
Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.
There's something to be learned by listening and absorbing and watching before you start telling the people who have been there how to rearrange chairs.
Listening and being curious and wide-eyed in the world, I think, is what allows us to move forward, progress, evolve and learn and alter our behavior and become more self-aware. I think that listening is kind of what it's all about.
I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that conversation could be the title or the subject of the song.
If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.
Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.
There is nothing wrong with listening. You can listen to people; you can hear people's concerns. You can keep an open mind and still be perfectly strong.
People will feel safer around you and speak truthfully to you when they feel you are listening intently to them.
You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.
Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.
For me, masculinity is about control, and femininity is more of an embrace, the art of listening. It's very inspiring to explore the shadows of masculinity and femininity, and the tensions between both, and the place of women in the world right now.
Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.
The measure of a conversation is how much mutual recognition there is in it; how much shared there is in it. If you're talking about what's in your own head, or without thought to what people looking and listening will feel, you might as well be in a room talking to yourself.
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.
The best way to persuade people is with your ears -- by listening to them.
There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking -- and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.
Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.
Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying.
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
It is silent, an anagram for listen.
That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent.
One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.
Authenticity is the ability to listen to what nature tells us. Listening isn't the same thing as never making a mistake, but the important thing is to learn.
Tone is often the most important part of a conversation -- and listening is so much more important than what you say.
There is something very basic to the sense of listening. The sense of hearing is the only one that operates totally from vibrations, without other physical or chemical reactions to receive the sensations.
Just because I didn't do what you told me, doesn't mean I wasn't listening to you!
One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.
To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.
Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.
The first rule of my speaking is: listen!
When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.
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.
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
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.
A healthy state encourages many voices -- and lots of listening.
I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.
Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
