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Before you speak, listen. -- William Arthur Ward
Anyone can listen to an exciting story; but a good listener is like a determined gold prospector patiently digging through the mud to find a little nugget of the prized metal. -- Rafik Schami
The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying. -- Sydney J. Harris
The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and opening, how to keep beginning. I've had to lean into all I don't understand, accepting that I am changed by what I hear. -- Mark Nepo
Listening is more than just being quiet for a moment. It's not just the pause we were talking about earlier. Listening includes paying attention to the whole person, and especially their emotions. -- Karen Ehman
Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured. -- Walter Anderson
Listen twice, but only think once. "I -- Zoya
Being listened to and heard is one of the greatest desires of the human heart. And those who learn to listen are the most loved and respected. -- Richard Carlson
Listen with your eyes. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
I listen ... because I don't have any answers. -- John Shors
I do listen. I just wait for the words to stop and your eyes to speak. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf. -- Terri Farley
Listening reminds me how precious it is to be here at all. And so, listening is the first step to peace, both inner peace and the compassion that connects people. -- Mark Nepo
What I do for a living is listen. -- Val Kilmer
There are few people who know how to listen and I have not met anybody who can do so like you. -- Hermann Hesse
Listening is a lamp that dispels the darkness of ignorance. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is an ancient lifeline by which we are awakened time and again. Once reawakened, we more easily find our way to each other, and so help each other live. -- Mark Nepo
Dont say anything. Just listen. -- Sienna Mcquillen
The best listeners listen between the lines. -- Nina Malkin
Listening is hard, as my friend once said, because you run the risk of having to change the way you see the world. -- Zia Haider Rahman
I'll listen if you want me to ... But I think I should tell you now that nothing you can say will make any difference. If you don't mind that, I don't mind listening. -- Ayn Rand
Listening can be an antidote to judgement. Listening matters. -- Ruth Messinger
Don't listen to what I'm saying. Listen to what I'm listening to. -- Michael Bernard Beckwith
Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears. -- Eugene Ormandy
Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active. -- Michael Shurtleff
Learning to listen is the essence of intelligent living. -- Sadhguru
When you listen with perfect awareness, then listening becomes possible. -- Rajneesh
To show that you truly care, you listen. -- Adora Svitak
Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet. I meet others with the life I've lived, not just with my questions. -- Krista Tippett
I listen to the voices. -- William Faulkner
If you hear I will speak but if you listen I will talk. -- Pushpa Rana
Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought. -- Eckhart Tolle
God has given you two ears
that should tell you something about the importance of listening. -- Jim George
Listen amply.
Listen aptly.
Listen avidly.
Listen amiably. -- Matshona Dhliwayo
Listening is love in action. -- Leo Buscaglia
Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind. -- Madeleine L'engle
Learn to listen with your fingers. -- Helen B. Taussig
In order to understand the impact you can have on another's life by listening you need to first be intimate with the experience of being heard. -- Madelaine Standing
Hear with your ears, listen with your heart. -- John R. Childress
Listen and attend with the ear of your heart. -- Benedict Of Nursia
Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. (attr to J. Isham) -- Sura Hart
To hear something asks very little of us. To listen places our entire being on notice. -- Terry Tempest Williams
Listening is an important skill to spark creativity and cultivate empathy. -- Pearl Zhu
I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen. -- Penelope Wilton
There is a craft and a power in listening. -- Glenn Gould
I'm a good listener. -- Retief Goosen
You must listen little one. -- Gillian Bronte Adams
Whatever difficulty you face, there are time-tried ways you can listen your way through. Because listening is the doorway to everything that matters. It enlivens the heart the way breathing enlivens the lungs. We listen to awaken our heart. We do this to stay vital and alive. -- Mark Nepo
It is equally important to listen as it is to speak. -- Sarah Kay
Just Listen an excerpt -- Rachel Naomi Remen
We are on the verge of listening -- Earl Lovelace
if you want to be understood ...Listen. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear. -- Harvey Mackay
Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it. -- Howard Gordon
At last I began to think, that is to say to listen harder. -- Samuel Beckett
I am hearing you. On radio. Is why I come. -- Anthony Doerr
Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?"
She taps the side of her head.
"Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens. -- Jojo Moyes
Everything in life opens and closes, sheds and renews. We are no different. Listening in its endless forms is the way we stay open, the way we stay in relationship, the way we refresh who we are and what we're doing here. -- Mark Nepo
Don't talk over me, don't argue with me, just listen. -- Laura Schlessinger
Listening requires attending to the other person's heart. -- Karen Ehman
Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening -- Pauline Oliveros
There is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on. -- Brandon Mull
Being a good listener is more than just being quiet. It's reflecting back on what you're hearing. It's processing the information to formulate a question, a comment or a speech. -- Shelley Moore Capito
I'm a darned good listener. -- Naomi Judd
Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond. -- Richard Carlson
I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said. -- Thuli Madonsela
Half the time you think your thinking you're actually listening -- Terence Mckenna
Sometimes listening itself may not be enough-some people must be prodded if you are to find out what they're thinking. -- Mary Kay Ash
I am listening and I am listening because what I'm playing isn't something I'm thinking about, it's something I'm feeling all over. -- Rachel Cohn
When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time. -- Steven Spielberg
Listen to the voices. -- William Faulkner
Proper listening is the foundation of proper living. -- Plutarch
All you've got to do is keep your ears open. -- Jaco Pastorius
Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind. -- Michael Rost
The biggest mistake most people make when it comes to listening is they're so focused on what they're going to say next or how what the other person is saying is going to affect them that they fail to hear what's being said. -- Travis Bradberry
Everybody hears, but few listen. -- Bobby Knight
I did not hear what I should have listened to. -- John Owen
I listened. Listening isn't hard to do. No one has practice at it, nowadays, but you can train yourself to pay attention to your senses if you work at it long enough. -- Jim Butcher
You can't fake listening. It shows. -- Raquel Welch
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. -- Anne Sexton
Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening. -- Terry Tempest Williams
There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing. -- G.k. Chesterton
Listening is seeking synchronicity with the speaker. -- Michael Rost
Hearing is different from listening. -- Elana Johnson
I may look like I'm not listening but trust me I'm memorising everything . -- Tina J. Richardson
Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen. -- Gary Hopkins
I just listen. Sitting here in the morning, eyes closed -- Paula Hawkins
Stop, collaborate and listen. -- Vanilla Ice
The first rule of my speaking is: listen! -- Larry King
Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others. -- Ford Frick
A good listener is usually thinking of something else. -- Kin Hubbard
You listen not for the purpose of judging, criticizing or analyzing. You listen only to help the other person to express himself and find some relief from his suffering. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
To be a deep listener, one of the first things we have to do is give up the need and the desire to give advice. Knowing answers does not require stating them; there are times when offering answers is not helpful, as when a person is in the middle of their own learning process. -- John Earle
The art of conversation lies in listening -- Malcolm Forbes
Listening to one's self as well as to others is a sacred act of healing. There is a higher octave of listening that hears the wisdom within the words. -- Cheryl Hamada
Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place. -- Simon Sinek
It takes time and the conscious choice to listen. -- Gary Chapman
People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do. -- Alex Blumberg
Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence. -- Confucius
