Quotes About Listening

In any job, you can come under attack or have a door slammed in your face. You do want to listen to critics; you don't want to be in a cocoon and never change. Get a second opinion from coworkers and friends. Know that criticism can be valid, but don't take it personally.

You hear different things from different people, and they're all valid: they're all valuable. I think that's what comprises a performance is all those ideas.

Make tweets effortless to enjoy, make it easier for all to participate, and make each of us on Twitter feel heard and valuable.

It's so easy to butt into a conversation and offer your own thoughts or opinions, but try not to interrupt. Instead, focus on what the other person is saying, think twice and be the person that listens. It's so much more valuable than constantly talking.

That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.

I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.

Empowering those around you to be heard and valued makes the difference between a leader who simply instructs and one who inspires.

One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

Every individual's listening is as unique as his or her fingerprints because we all listen through filters that develop from our personal mix of culture, language, values, beliefs, attitudes, expectations and intentions. That is why one person's musical taste is another person's hideous noise.

How each of us comes for our own reasons." "Comes where?" "To be with them and listen to their message. What Stephen meant was that our motives are wrong. Our thinking is wrong. But if we come . . . with an open heart and mind, we will see the rightness of their declarations.

I beg you to stop your arguing and listen. The prophets speak of this time, when the Chosen One of God will cleave us apart, separating the believers from those who will be cast into the outer darkness. Have you ever in all your days seen a time when the division has been clearer? Have you ever known a time when miracles rained down from an empty sky, when the prophets' words were so clearly being fulfilled?

Sometimes the way God chooses to lead us is through our own disquieted Spirit. pg. 241

Does this God of yours speak with you often?" "No. But he makes his will known. His Holy Spirit moves among us. I'm practicing listening and hearing and obeying.

John was a constant talker. Yoko would punctuate his sentences with a "Yes, yes" or some little bit of emphasis.

I always listen, the duke said, annoyed. Just hang your silly, unnatural notion, that hearing means following your orders.

Were you listening to a word I said?' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.

The people to listen to are the ones who don't say very much

Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what's going on, our ears don't have lids that can instinctively close against the words uttered, they can't hide from what they sense they're about to hear, it's always too late.

I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it's one of the innumerable languages I don't know, even if it's in an indistinguishable murmur or imperceptible whisper, even if it would be better that I didn't understand and what's said is not intended for my ears or is said precisely so I won't understand it.

You don't have to give away free things in order to be generous. You can prove your generosity by your ability to listen and see things from your customer's point of view. You can prove it by your willingness to share information, by the inside tips you give to your customers.

reason, guerrilla marketing preaches fervent follow-up —continually staying in touch with customers—and listening to them.

When you ask the right questions, consumers will tell you what to do to make your business more profitable. Simply by listening to consumers, you will do the smart thing far more often than if you simply decide to go it alone.

One thing I've learned over the years is that nobody really wants my good advice. They just pretend to listen to it." "Probably because most people just want to whine about their problems. They don't want to actually take the hard actions that will fix those problems.

Sometimes just knowing that someone thinks you deserve to be heard, that your opinion has merit, means everything.