Quotes About Listening

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

Never hear what somebody thinks about you, you'll live longer. Hear that they're in pain. Don't hear their analysis.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

One who cares is one who listens.

The first step of any communication is honest & consistent intentions, after this, even if you don't communicate, people will listen, hear & align

There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.

Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.

Always listen to what people need rather than what they are thinking about us.

The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

We are responsible for what we hear other people say and for how we act.

Labeling and diagnosis is a catastrophic way to communicate. Telling other people what's wrong with them greatly reduces, almost to zero, the probability that we're going to get what we're after.

Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words.

Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need.

Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.

Never question the beauty of what you are saying because someone reacts with pain, judgment, criticism. It just means they have not heard you.

Empathy before education.

The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

In these long-standing conflicts, I find that most cases it gets resolved in about twenty minutes after each side can tell me the needs of the other.

Empathize, rather than put your "but" in the face of an angry person.

Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.