Quotes About Listening

I pride myself in listening. When you have people paying attention to you, your biggest job is to listen what they want. Deliver what your community wants.

To practice the process of conflict resolution, we must completely abandon the goal of getting people to do what we want.

I love the English people - if you don't want to speak, you don't speak. And I'm quite like that sometimes.

Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen.

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

I think you have to be respectful to the people who want to talk to you.

Customers will want to talk to you if they believe you can solve their problems.

When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.

The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.

People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Wonder what customers really want? Ask. Don't Tell.

One of the most common mistakes people make in any conversation is to think about what they want to say next instead of actually listening to what the other person is saying.

I didn't have musical upbringing. I never listened to music growing up, thinking "I want to make my own music". I just listened to music for pleasure.

What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood.

You can't make people listen to you. People only hear what they want to hear.

At the end of the day, storytelling is actually very simple in its origin as long as there are people who want to tell stories and there are people who want to hear them.

If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

People won't give you feedback until they think you actually want it.

Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it.

I emphasize listening. We strive to hear what other people want us to hear, even though they don't always come out and say it directly.

I think people react so strongly to hearing the human voice, you can't give them too much of it or else they want it all the time.