No man ever listened himself out of a job.
- Calvin CoolidgeA good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
- Adam FoardA good listener is usually thinking about something else.
- Adam GladstoneBe a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
- Abdul Hussein HendawiEverybody lies, but it doesn`t matter because nobody listens.
- Adam WoodworthWhen people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
- Ernest HemingwayKnow how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
- Aditya MittalMake sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
- Ab DettorreNo one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you`ll see why.
- Adam SteadmanIt is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Addison MiznerA good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
- Agus HartonoMaybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
- Margaret ChoI like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
- Ernest HemingwayIf A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
- Albert EinsteinEverything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
- Andre GideTo listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation
- Chinese ProverbsTo listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
- Janet WatsonSo when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.
- Jiddu KrishnamurtiA good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.
- Kenneth A. WellsI would be willing to bet that if one day a woman walked barefoot to the moon and back and a man cleaned out his desk, when the two of them sat down to dinner that night he would say, '˜Boy was that desk a mess.'
- Margo KaufmanThe first duty of love is to listen.
- Paul TillichI know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I`m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
- Robert McCloskeyDeep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.
- Sue Patton ThoeleDon`t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can`t hear, and not bothering.
- Winnie the PoohListen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn`t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
- Hugh Elliott"So, I`ll wait here and pray. I prayed that I was all wrong about prayer"
- Andy Sixx