Quotes About Listening

The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.

Patience is a most necessary quality for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Children should be seen and not heard.

Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

People love to talk but hate to listen. 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. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

The less men think; the more they talk.

The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.

None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.

Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.

O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!

Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.

There is a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

None so deaf as those that will not hear.