Top 61 Listening Communication Quotes
#1. Soul grows in communion. Word by word, story by story, for better or worse, we build our world. From true conversation - speaking and listening - communication deepens into compassion and creates community.
Sam Keen
#2. Effective, true deep listening and honest dialogue is a gift a soul can choose to give. How easy or difficult that can be depends on the values you hold in your life.
Angelica Hopes
#3. You can practice deep listening in order to relieve the suffering in us, and in the other person. That kind of listening is described as compassionate listening. You listen only for the purpose of relieving suffering in the other person.
Nhat Hanh
#4. Most believe that the key to influence is communication - getting your point across clearly and speaking persuasively. In fact, if you think about it, don't you find that, while others are speaking to you, instead of really listening to understand, you are often busy preparing your response?
Stephen R. Covey
#5. I only wish I could find an institute that teaches people how to listen. Business people need to listen at least as much as they need to talk. Too many people fail to realize that real communication goes in both directions.
Lee Iacocca
#7. Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the vast variety of human language around them.
Robert Lane Greene
#9. When someone says we need to talk, what he or she usually means is you will listen. Any conversation that takes place will be accidental.
James Anderson
#10. Listening and trying to understand the needs of those we would communicate with seems to me to be the essential prerequisite of any real communication. And we might as well aim for real communication.
Fred Rogers
#11. The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.
James Cash Penney
#12. The world is full of talkers, but it is rare to find anyone who listens. And I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.
E.B. White
#13. Communication is really a two-way process with listenining being as important as speaking. Enhancing one's listening skills is therefore as important as enhancing one's speaking skills.
Vishwas Chavan
#14. If you think communication is all talking, you haven't been listening.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#15. When we don't tell those we love about what's really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.
Sharon Salzberg
#16. Talk passionately and act compassionately. The only thing you can do in your life to win the world is to be a kind speaker and a kind listener. That's what makes the humankind. Kind listening and kind speaking. Passionately talk and compassionately act.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#17. The key ingredient in family communication is listening, really listening.
Zig Ziglar
#18. God has given you two ears
that should tell you something about the importance of listening.
Jim George
#19. In a society that prates about, but seldom practices, communication, the craving to be listened to, heard, understood - which originates with the first terrified wail, the circling arms, the breast, the consolatory murmur - is hard to assuage.
Nancy Mairs
#20. He who does not want to understand the Other has no right to say that what the Other does or says makes no sense.
Thomas Szasz
#21. Proper communication will always be a main ingredient for building family solidarity and permanence.
Marvin J. Ashton
#22. A willingness to practice patience. Patience in communication is that certain ingredient of conduct we hope others will exhibit toward us when we fail to measure up. Our own patience is developed when we are patient with others.
Marvin J. Ashton
#23. One of great arts of communication is the skill of listening to people
Sunday Adelaja
#24. A powerful leader, like a conductor, need not say a word for his message to be communicated.
Orly Wahba
#25. Talking doesn't get your point across but listening does.
Debasish Mridha
#26. Communication is defined not by what is being said but by what is being heard. For this reason, it is vital that you gain a good appreciation of how other people will listen - interpret, process, and assign meaning - to what you have to say before you can influence them effectively.
Margie Warrell
#27. Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.
Shannon L. Alder
#29. Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.
Rumi
#30. The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.
Stephen R. Covey
#31. Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.
Robert K. Greenleaf
#32. Remember that any functioning communication, and communication is a two-street; it requires my listening and my speaking. Our relationship with the Lord is no different. It requires my listening to God through a study of His word, and my speaking to God through diligent prayer.
Teresa Hampton
#33. The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society - and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding.
William H. Whyte
#34. You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.
Bill Walsh
#35. Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.
Emma Thompson
#37. Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication
Groucho Marx
#38. 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
#39. Do remember that communication is an exchange of thoughts. This means listening and speaking are necessary. You can't call something a conversation if you're the only one talking or listening.
Mia Conrad
#40. J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, "could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests.
Philip Zaleski
#41. I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.
David Gilmour
#42. She told me she loved me. She told me a lot of things. Some of those things were true, and some of those may or may not have been true. It's kind of hard to tell, because to be honest, I wasn't listening.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#43. Being a good communicator Patch, begins with listening, and listening to yourself first.
Michele Jennae
#44. Effective communication requires active listening skills.
Farshad Asl
#45. We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
Victoria Osteen
#46. The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring,
Oliver DeMille
#47. Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist ...
Jesse Ventura
#49. The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.
Hayley Atwell
#50. Democracy is interactive ... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.
Dick Gephardt
#51. Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.
Mary Mihalic
#52. Your communication should not be for you. Your communication should be a service vehicle to reach the other person. Talking is for the other person. Listening is for you.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#53. Give me the gift of a listening heart.
Solomon
#54. Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.
John P. Kotter
#55. 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
#56. What means the fact
which is so common, so universal
that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressing its despair?
Henry David Thoreau
#57. We know that when people learn to communicate effectively with each other, their lives and their relationships can be truly transformed. This book gives people both a way of expressing their needs congruently and non-blamefully and a way of listening so others feel not just heard, but understood.
Thomas Gordon
#59. In some ways, we will always be different. In other ways, we will always be the same. There is always room to disagree and blame, just as there is always room to take a new perspective and empathize. Understanding is a choice.
Vironika Tugaleva
#61. Real communication is an attitude, an environment. It is the most interactive of all processes. It requires countless hours of eyeball to eyeball, back and forth. It involves more listening than talking.
Jack Welch
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