Quotes About Listening

to be genuinely interested in other people is a most important quality for a sales-person to possess—for any person, for that matter.

Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.

Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments.

For Roosevelt knew, as all leaders know, that the royal road to a person's heart is to talk about the things he or she treasures most.

If a person makes a statement that you think is wrong—yes, even that you know is wrong—isn't it better to begin by saying: "Well, now, look. I thought otherwise, but I may be wrong. I frequently am. And if I am wrong, I want to be put right. Let's examine the facts." There's magic, positive magic, in such phrases as: "I may be wrong. I frequently am. Let's examine the facts.

the only way on earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.

Once you take the time to consider the other person's perspective, you will become sympathetic to his feel ins and ideas. You will be able to authentically and honestly say, I don't blame you for feeling as you do. If I were in your position, I would feel just as you do.

Very important people have told me that they prefer good listeners to good talkers, but the ability to listen seems rarer than almost any other good trait.

Wouldn't you like to have a magic phrase that would stop arguments, eliminate ill feeling, create good will, and make the other person listen attentively? Yes? All right. Here it is: "I don't blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you do.

Cooperativeness in conversation is achieved when you show that you consider the other person's ideas and feelings as important as your own.

Become genuinely interested in other people.

Let me repeat that. You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

So the only way on earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.

It took me years and cost me countless thousands of dollars in lost business before I finally learned that it doesn't pay to argue, that it is much more profitable and much more interesting to look at things from the other person's viewpoint and try to get that person saying 'yes, yes.

Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you is very important. Nothing else is so flattering as that.

we like speakers to talk with, and not at, us.

When one person yells the other should listen. When two people yell, there's no communication.

Isaac F. Marcosson, a journalist who interviewed hundreds of celebrities, declared that many people fail to make a favourable impression because they don't listen attentively.

I have quit telling people they are wrong. And I find that it pays.

Dogs know by some divine instinct that you can make more friends in minutes by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in months of trying to get other people interested in you.

success in dealing with people depends on a sympathetic grasp of the other person's viewpoint.

When someone expresses some feeling, attitude or belief, our tendency is almost immediately to feel "that's right," or "that's stupid," "that's abnormal," "that's unreasonable," "that's incorrect," "that's not nice." Very rarely do we permit ourselves to understand precisely what the meaning of the statement is to the other person.

Try honestly to see things from the other person's point of view.