Quotes About Listening

It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people.

Customers can't always tell you what they want, but they can always tell you what's wrong.

If you don't talk to your customers, how will you know how to talk to your customers?

Think like a customer

The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.

Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.

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

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.

I think in our desire to create a better America,we have to have civilized debate in this country and not just yelling.

Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave the badgering to the badgers.

I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

I am going to leave everything on the field. I am going everywhere, and I am going to listen to everybody.

Sometimes if the point of a piece of music is to open a conversation with other people, it's really hard to open that conversation if you're telling people exactly what to do or feel or think.

Ten, 15 years before, the Latin industry was singing Anglo music, trying to get an opportunity with them. Everything changed, and now around the world everyone is listening to our Latin music.

When you're leading, don't talk.

Listening leads to better care, and your doctor should make an effort to hear you out and learn about you.

I'm actually - believe it or not, for an academic - an aural learner.

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

I go everywhere in the state and I listen to Montanans, whether it's in conservative areas or liberal areas, and take those ideas back to Washington, D.C., and put them into action.