Quotes About Listening

Fill your mind before you empty your mouth.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say

Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.

You should never be so high and mighty you can't listen to somebody else and learn something from them. Leadership is as much about using the ear as using the mouth.

One of the most important leadership lessons is realizing you're not the most important or the most intelligent person in the room at all times.

By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.

The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.

Listen more than you talk.

Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.

Effective communication is the best way to solve problems.

The wise leader speaks rarely and briefly. After all, no other natural outpouring goes on and on. It rains and then it stops. It thunders and then it stops.

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Leadership is about making people feel safe. When someone feels heard, they feel safe.

If one wishes to be a great project manager, one needs to talk less and write more.

An effective leader is also an effective listener.

He who would rule must hear and be deaf see and be blind.

Change comes from listening, learning, caring and conversation.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?