Quotes About Listening

Thinking is listening to yourself. It's difficult. To think, you have to be at least two people at the same time. Then you have to let those people disagree. Thinking is an internal dialogue between two or more different views of the world.

He suggested that his readers conduct a short experiment when they next found themselves in a dispute: "Stop the discussion for a moment, and institute this rule: 'Each person can speak up for himself only after he has first restated the ideas and feelings of the previous speaker accurately, and to that speaker's satisfaction.

If you listen, instead, without premature judgment, people will generally tell you everything they are thinking—and with very little deceit. People will tell you the most amazing, absurd, interesting things. Very few of your conversations will be boring. (You can in fact tell whether or not you are actually listening in this manner. If the conversation is boring, you probably aren't.)

Advice is what you get when the person you're talking with about something horrible and complicated wishes you would just shut up and go away. Advice is what you get when the person you are talking to wants to revel in the superiority of his or her own intelligence. If you weren't so stupid, after all, you wouldn't have your stupid problems.

You can be pretty smart if you can just shut up.

Psychotherapy is genuine conversation. Genuine conversation is exploration, articulation and strategizing. When you're involved in a genuine conversation, you're listening, and talking—but mostly listening. Listening is paying attention. It's amazing what people will tell you if you listen.

Psychotherapy is genuine conversation. Genuine conversation is exploration, articulation and strategizing. When you're involved in a genuine conversation, you're listening, and talking—but mostly listening.

I nod. You can be pretty smart if you can just shut up.

próxima vez que se encontraran en una discusión: «Detén la discusión un momento e introduce esta regla: "Cada persona puede decir lo que piensa solo después de repetir las ideas y sentimientos de la persona que acaba de hablar de forma minuciosa, con una formulación que esa persona apruebe"».

You have to get along with other people. A therapist is one of those other people. A good therapist will tell you the truth about what he thinks. (That is not the same thing as telling you that what he thinks is the truth.) Then at least you have the honest opinion of at least one person. That's not so easy to get. That's not nothing. That's key to the psychotherapeutic process: two people tell each other the truth—and both listen.

When you next find yourself in a dispute: stop the discussion for a moment, and institute this rule: Each person can speak up for himself only after he has first restated the ideas and feelings of the previous speaker accurately and to that speaker's satisfaction.

DA POR HECHO QUE LA PERSONA A LA QUE ESCUCHAS PUEDE SABER ALGO QUE TÚ NO SABES

Narrowing your eyes even more while compressing your lips more intensely, if the above topic deals with one of the prospect's pain points. In addition, you'll continue to nod your head slowly while letting out the appropriate oohs and aahs to show that you actually feel your prospect's pain.

forward when you ask an emotionally charged question, and then continuing to lean forward while your prospect answers (while also using the active listening techniques I laid out above in number 3).

First, you're identifying their needs—and not just their core need but also any secondary needs or 'problems' they might have.

So, again, that's what's happening when you're directly on the straight line. You're the one doing all the talking, and your client is listening. And when you're off the straight line, but still inside the boundaries, right here and here"—I point to the spaces—"it's the prospect who's doing the talking, and you're doing the listening.

So, if at any moment you sense that you're falling out of rapport with your prospect, then you need to stop, regroup, and make a conscious effort to get back into rapport, using the active listening protocol I laid out for you, along with two specific tonalities I went through this morning—'I care (I really want to know)' and 'I feel your pain.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

Now listen for the pines, the bloom, its glittering, the wild hacking of sea, bend in each stream, eddy of bend—listen—hear all skins raveling, unending—hear one skin clamp down upon what now is no longer missing. Here you are says a voice in the light, the trapped light. Be happy.

Dijalog je rodio ?utanje.

Su rasgo característico, absolutamente inequívoco, es su deferencia por la opinión de los demás. No habla nunca; repite siempre.

Juzga a los hombres como los oye juzgar.

Mga mamamayan din ang mga bumubuo ng gobyerno at sila ang higit na nakapag-aral.' 'Ngunit tulad po ng ibang tao, nagkakamali kaya hindi dapat maging bingi sa kuro-kuro ng iba.