Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Listening. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Listening Quotes And Sayings by 91 Authors including Rachel Cohn,John Green,Nina Malkin,Ruth Messinger,Malcolm Forbes for you to enjoy and share.
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
In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to. -- John Green
The best listeners listen between the lines. -- Nina Malkin
Listening can be an antidote to judgement. Listening matters. -- Ruth Messinger
The art of conversation lies in listening -- Malcolm Forbes
To learn, we must first listen. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
If you got ears, you gotta listen. -- Don Van Vliet
Listening requires attending to the other person's heart. -- Karen Ehman
Half the time you think your thinking you're actually listening -- Terence Mckenna
Listening is not only about waiting, but it's also learning how better to ask questions. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Genuine listening means suspending memory, desire, and judgment - and, for a moment at least, existing for the other person. -- Michael P Nichols
True listening involves bracketing, a setting aside of the self. -- M. Scott Peck
Listening is active. At its most basic level, it's about focus, paying attention. -- Simon Sinek
Don't just listen with your two ears only. Listen attentively. Listen with every fiber of your being! -- Assegid Habtewold
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
Good listening places us on an edifice of learning complex human behavior. -- Balroop Singh
Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline. -- Peter Drucker
Proper listening is the foundation of proper living. -- Plutarch
Active listening involves both demonstration and perception. -- James Pyle
Listening is a skill NOT a talent. -- Bonakala Bsac
Good listening is always the first step in the process that creates technique and capability -- Howard Snell
LISTEN twice as much as you speak. -- John C. Maxwell
Listen first and never stop listening. -- Dave Kerpen
Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open- hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand. -- Sue Thoele
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
Listen if you want to be heard -- John Wooden
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
Listening is a lamp that dispels the darkness of ignorance. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
I'm a good listener. -- Retief Goosen
Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place. -- Simon Sinek
Stay a while and Listen. -- Deckard Cain
Listen with your eyes as well as your ears. -- Graham Speechley
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
Long listening is hungry work. -- J.r.r. Tolkien
A good listener is usually thinking of something else. -- Kin Hubbard
God has given you two ears
that should tell you something about the importance of listening. -- Jim George
The difference between hearing and listening is paying attention -- Ruth Messinger
In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life. -- Mark Nepo
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
When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something. -- Jared Sparks
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
Listen more often than you speak. -- Howard Baker
Listen amply.
Listen aptly.
Listen avidly.
Listen amiably. -- Matshona Dhliwayo
I believe that listening is one of the most important skills for any teacher, parent, leader, entrepreneur or, well, just about anyone who has a pulse. -- Richard Branson
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
To hear something asks very little of us. To listen places our entire being on notice. -- Terry Tempest Williams
To show that you truly care, you listen. -- Adora Svitak
Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. -- Alan Alda
Learning to listen relationally, listen with cool heads and clear boundaries, listen with the quietness of the heart and the gentleness of the body, means having a self so developed it can afford to yield. -- Terrence Real
What I do for a living is listen. -- Val Kilmer
And most important, listen. -- John C. Maxwell
I may look like I'm not listening but trust me I'm memorising everything . -- Tina J. Richardson
The unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair. -- Terry Tempest Williams
Listening is love in action. -- Leo Buscaglia
You are never listening to what someone is saying, you are only ever listening to what you are hearing -- Julia Heywood
It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement. -- Deepak Chopra
Listening is the new prospecting. -- John Jantsch
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
In a world where the great technologies enable us to record, replay, cut and paste, zoom in, and delete, listening is the crucial commitment to keep the heart touchable. -- Mark Nepo
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something. -- Wilson Mizner
Hearing is different from listening. -- Elana Johnson
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
Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen ... One can listen better if one sees the whole. -- Bill Drayton
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 doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know. -- Umberto Eco
The biggest obstacle to learning is LISTENING with ears to hear. -- Jonah Books
Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking. -- C.s. Lewis
Passion is listening. -- Rahul Gandhi
Real communication is impossible without listening. -- Ralph C. Smedley
Becoming a good listener, you are able to connect with others on more levels and develop stronger, deeper relationships. -- John C. Maxwell
A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom. -- Richard Rohr
The single most important key to success is to be a good listener. -- Kelly Wearstler
There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing. -- G.k. Chesterton
There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said. -- Thuli Madonsela
Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said. -- Simon Sinek
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, it's always too late. -- Javier Marias
The best listener is the one who really cares about the other person. -- Kevin Stirtz
You listened. You always listen. -- Laurelin Paige
Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything. -- Meryl Streep
I don't think you can be a good listener unless you're a good listener. I think it's something that you really have to do, and if you really do it, then you can do it. If you don't do it, then you can't do it. -- Dick Gephardt
This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears, and incompetencies that are part of the learning process. It is in listening to the student that I learn to speak with him or her. -- Paulo Freire
People really like to listen to other people talk; sometimes listening is the only thing you can do. -- Alex Blumberg
Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer. -- Mark Rubinstein
When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life. -- Brenda Ueland
I'm a darned good listener. -- Naomi Judd
Helping begins with listening. -- Gloria Steinem
The practice of deep listening is the practice of open inquiry, without assumption or judgement. -- Sharon Weil
I am hearing you. On radio. Is why I come. -- Anthony Doerr
This chapter is an attempt to share with you some insights about story listening and how to do it. -- John S. Savage
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work. -- Tom Peters
You'll learn far more by listening than you ever will by speaking. -- David Estes
The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire. -- Wilfred Bion
If speaking is silver, then listening is gold. -- Turkish Proverbs
Listening ears are soothing for a heart that needs peace. -- Saravana Kumar Murugan
Tonight I'm going to listen with my ears. -- Eugene Ormandy
Are you quick to listen? Listening is an expression of humility and genuine concern for others. ... .If we want to truly know and understand other people, we have to care what they feel and think, not arrogantly assume that we already know. -- Joshua Harris
It is equally important to listen as it is to speak. -- Sarah Kay
Love begins with listening. -- Fred Rogers
The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well. -- Steve Goodier
