Top 28 Listen To Reply Quotes
#1. The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.
Stephen R. Covey
#2. The major dilemma is that we tend to listen to reply, while all we should do is: listen to understand and feel.
Akilnathan Logeswaran
#3. Teaching ... can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.
Marie Clay
#4. You can't always mark them well at the moment of separation - no matter how deep they cut.
Ally Condie
#5. My son youngest son David's favorite song - he plays guitar - and he likes "Devil Pray." That's his favorite.
Madonna Ciccone
#6. I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.
Ringo Starr
#7. When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to then speak openly and to be understood come much more naturally and easily.
Stephen Covey
#8. It is progress when weapons are improved to kill more people at a longer range.
Thor Heyerdahl
#9. Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?
John William Draper
#10. Of course I'm funky like fat people having intercourse.
Basically, the funk is stuck in your teeth ... so get the dental floss.
Redman
#11. Your life will never improve unless you start making daily improvements.
Lewis Howes
#12. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Stephen R. Covey
#13. If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.
Arthur Smith
#14. To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#15. You listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you consider what they've said - then, you reply ...
John Geddes
#16. Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
Stephen Covey
#17. What did you do to her?"
There were a thousand things he'd done.
I didn't believe her.
I didn't trust her.
I didn't show her how much I loved her.
I didn't protect her.
He settled on: "I made a mistake.
Sarah MacLean
#18. Why do people not listen when you say no? Why do they think you are too stupid or too young to understand? Why do they think you are too shy to reply? Why do they keep badgering you until you will say yes?
Sharon Creech
#20. The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.
Mahatma Gandhi
#21. And if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree
Tori Amos
#22. [She] did not reply. She didn't want to talk to anyone. She just wanted to listen to what her bewildered heart was telling her.
Cornelia Funke
#23. Your preschool child will chatter endlessly to you. If you half-listen and half-reply the whole conversation will seem, and become, tediously meaningless for both of you. but if you really listen and really answer, he will talk more and what he says will make more sense.
Penelope Leach
#24. In order to really understand, we need to listen, not reply. We need to listen long and attentively. In order to help anybody to open his heart we have to give him time, asking only a few questions, as carefully as possible in order to help him better explain his experience.
Paul Tournier
#25. Under my head till morning; but the rain, Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh, Upon the glass and listen for reply ...
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#26. They don't want people to listen, they want people to agree," I reply. "And you shouldn't bully people into agreeing with you.
Veronica Roth
#27. Be patient when you listen, be gracious when you reply, and be wise when you act.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#28. Ethically, she couldn't cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.
Thomm Quackenbush
