Quotes About Listening

Once you have become good at being a compliment detective, it's time to share some of your feelings with others. The following three-step formula will make it easy: (1) Be specific. (2) Say the person's name. (3) Follow up with a question.

That is --- we think differently, we now and then see things differently...--- Those who tell their own story you know must be listened to with caution.---

I was in awe of him. I didn't speak; I listened.

I was in awe of him. I didn't speak; I listened. He was flawless.

It's asking for trouble to listen to music alone.

God was listening to us." "He's always listening to us!

No driven man hears unwanted counsel.

Hate has no ears.

The silent man is the best to listen to.

When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.

Verbal mirroring involves saying things like "You're really angry!" or "You're sad right now." Verbal mirroring helps a young child identify feelings and helps people of all ages feel heard. The process isn't limited to feelings; qualities are mirrored as well. "You're a pretty girl" and "My, aren't you smart!" are other examples.

Last time I looked, in about 2009, social media was one big room full of people not listening to each other, shouting, 'My life's great!' I doubt this has changed.

But just like one's conscience, a woman's intuition can be dulled if she persistently disregards it. Have you ever noticed that we often regret ignoring our intuition but we never seem to regret listening to it.?

Everyone wants to be heard and respected. It usually doesn't cost much to do, either. And it doesn't really matter all that much whether you ultimately think you're right and they're wrong. Arguing with heated feelings will just increase the burn.

How should you keep track of what customers want? Don't. Listen, but then forget what people said. Seriously. There's no need for a spreadsheet, database, or filing system. The requests that really matter are the ones you'll hear over and over. After a while, you won't be able to forget them. Your customers will be your memory. They'll keep reminding you. They'll show you which things you truly need to worry about.

A lot of companies have a similar front-of-house/back-of-house split. The people who make the product work in the "kitchen" while support handles the customers. Unfortunately, that means the product's chefs never get to directly hear what customers are saying. Too bad. Listening to customers is the best way to get in tune with a product's strengths and weaknesses.

Remind yourself daily to spend more time being interested then interesting.

Pope sees that keeping people on the same page takes total follow-through. "We told the groups though our action," he explains, "that we're not hard-nosed and [it isn't that we] don't care about what they think. We proved to them they have a voice and we ought to listen to it. And we know that if we're really listening we ought to react.

Escuchar es lo más peligroso. Es saber, estar al tanto. Los oídos carecen de párpados que puedan cerrarse instintivamente a lo pronunciado, no pueden guardarse de lo que se presiente que va a escucharse, siempre es demasiado tarde".

Furcsa kor ez a miénk" – gondoltam. "Most mindenrÅ'l lehet beszélni, és mindenkit meg kell hallgatni, akármit is tett; és nem csak azért, hogy védekezhessen, hanem mert a meséje mintha önmagában is érdekes volna.

No puede andar escuchando las historias con que le viene cualquiera ni hacer de juez universal. No puede dedicarse a castigar, ni siquiera con su actitud, o retirando la amistad, a quien tal vez haya hecho algo malo en alguna ocasión. No acabaríamos

olvidamos lo que decimos mucho más que lo que escuchamos, lo que escribimos mucho más que lo que leemos, lo que enviamos mucho más que lo que nos alcanza, por eso no contamos apenas con las ofensas que infligimos y sí en cambio con las que sufrimos, y por eso casi todo el mundo le tiene alguna guardada a alguien.

Uno olvida mucho más lo que sale de su boca que lo que entra por sus oídos

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.