Quotes About Listening

Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis.

When you deliver information the way the other person wants to receive it, you increase your bottom line.

Active prospecting let's people know that they matter

I listen to tapes a lot. I have a car that only (has a cassette player). I like the nostalgic factor.

I listen to NPR and baseball games when I'm in my car. I mean, exclusively NPR and baseball games, and that's it, as far as the radio.

I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car.

If there's anyone in space, what they'll learn about the human race will be listening to us talking on the car phone.

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.

Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.

I've been like someone with a bad cold, all kind of shut up inside myself, not being able to hear other people. Just shouting out at them sometimes.

Did God mind that dreadful singing, he who made the nightingale and the lark? Probably not. Probably it was the soul of Mrs Crabtree he was listening to, the worshipping song of her heart, and that rang true as a bell.

Silence is full of speech.

Don't wear yourself out Dad. Is that your way of telling your old man to shut up?

I always listen to everything you say. You have very authoritative hair.

Mutual understanding can never be attained by "communications down," can never be created by talking. It can result only from "communications up." It requires both the superior's willingness to listen and a tool especially designed to make lower managers heard.

Listen first, speak last.

Cheryl: When you don't understand what someone said, remember, it's your job to ask them to explain.

some people were born quiet, preferring to listen.

Usually I said nothing at all; as a waiguoren I was often most comfortable when I was listening.

Pastors and Bible teachers go about their work in communal settings, where they listen to as well as deliver sermons, hear as well as speak, and gain biblical insights from their parishioners as much as they pass them on.

Not all prayer is in words, because not all conversation is in words.

and magazines and listen to the same economists.

This is investing, where the smart money isn't so smart, and the dumb money isn't really as dumb as it thinks. Dumb money is only dumb when it listens to the smart money.

Advocacy without inquiry begets more advocacy.