A Great Listener Quotes

#1. It takes a great man to make a great listener

Arthur Helps

#2. Lead by listening - to be a good leader you have to be a great listener.

Richard Branson

#3. Festus, you're such a great listener.

Maria Kanellis

#4. As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.

Richard Branson

#5. To be a great leader, you must be a great listener

Richard Branson

#6. Beside every great writer is a great listener.

Nanette L. Avery

#7. A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.

Louise Penny

#8. I've been musically inclined since I picked up an instrument in the fourth grade. I just really appreciate music. I love to listen to it; I love to sing. I wouldn't consider myself, like, a natural singer. I just developed it over time, honestly, just listening. I'm a great listener to music.

Kyrie Irving

#9. Be a sponge. Spend as much time as possible with people who truly know their craft and be a great listener. That is how you learn.

Jerry Colangelo

#10. I would just like a woman someday, somewhere, at some point in my life to say to me, 'You're a great listener.' Haven't heard it yet, and that's a superior compliment to get from a woman. But I'm going to work on it.

Ashton Kutcher

#11. He wasn't much of a listener, not a great payer of attention to things outside his head.

Wendell Berry

#12. Fortunately, working with Universal was just a real opportunity of a supportive entity, who not only financially backed and distributed the movie, but creatively collaborated with us, and gave us ideas and creative ways to make a movie that was budgetarily responsible.

David Gordon Green

#13. In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.

Christopher Pike

#14. Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

Marya Mannes

#15. Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

Nanci Griffith

#16. I lied as a nightingale sings, ecstatically, self-obliviously; reveling in the new life-harmony which I was creating.

Vladimir Nabokov

#17. If you are not playful you are not alive.

David Hockney

#18. Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener

Arnold Schoenberg

#19. A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#20. It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Calvin Coolidge

#21. The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own.

Sheryl Crow

#22. If the ties that bind ever do come loose
If forever ever ends for you
If that ring gets a little too tight
You might as well read me my last rights.

The Band Perry

#23. When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

Mariska Hargitay

#24. My dream was to be a working actress that would be working in theater.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#25. I'm not focused on radio or whether I'm going to get all the audiences ... all I wanted were great songs that were universal to any listener - Black, White, Green, Yellow; any kind a age difference.

Ledisi

#26. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

Max Ehrmann

#27. When I hear people clapping at the wrong times, I think that's great. We have got a listener that's not used to going to - we have got a new listener.

Joshua Bell

#28. I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside.

Mark Ruffalo

#29. I'm definitely not your stereotypical actor: the loud, cackling type who strolls into a room and grabs everyone's attention with a great story. I've always been much more of a listener.

Emun Elliott

#30. I don't speak a lot when I get home, during the season. It's great. I just get to sit and listen. My wife gets to tell me whatever she wants to tell me, and I don't talk. I'm too exhausted to talk, so I'm a very good listener.

Thomas Sadoski

#31. Five Great Habits for Better Relationships: acceptance (smile each time), appreciation (say thank you to everyone), admiration (compliment people on their appearance or clothing, etc.), approval (praise immediately, specifically and repeatedly), and attention (be a good listener).

Brian Tracy

#32. Sadoway does more than entertain; he gives you a glimpse into the future of energy.

Jeffrey Kluger

#33. As a writer, I find it very satisfying when a lyric suddenly ties together more neatly than you expected it to. But for the listener, hearing a good lyric is not generally as exciting as hearing a great beat or a great riff or a great melody or even a distinctive singing voice for the first time.

Adam Schlesinger

#34. Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.

Robert Wilson Lynd