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Quotes About Listening

Many leaders don't listen, and it is one of the greatest methods we have of learning. You need to listen to those under your supervision and to those who are above you.
~ John Wooden
I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.
~ John Legend
Learning never takes place while you're talking.
~ Andy Stanley
The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.
~ Adrienne von Speyr
So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.
~ Sonny Terry
Teaching is listening, learning is talking
~ Deborah Meier
I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worship
~ Michael W. Smith
My words itch at your ears till you understand them
~ Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.
~ Deborah Meier
I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )
~ Nikki Giovanni
Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
~ Emma Thompson
If you play the game and you think about coaching, you should know it's about listening to people and learning.
~ Warren Gatland
The best reason for listening to and learning from the poor is that this is one way God is revealed to us.
~ Doris Janzen Longacre
The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.
~ Oliver DeMille
The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Music is a passion of mine. Im always listening, always learning.
~ J. D. Pardo
Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions.
~ Jacqueline Novogratz
Life moves forward, not backward, and it would be wise to listen to what change has to say.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Sometimes you can get more answers by not asking any questions.
~ Kenneth Eade, Killer.com
Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.
~ Chinmayananda Saraswati
Communication is to relationships what breath is to life.
~ Virginia Satir
The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.
~ Bill Hybels
If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.
~ Bill Hybels
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
~ Stephen Covey