Quotes About Effective Listening

#1. As soon as effective listening takes place, the ear identifies what needs to be done and guides the techniques search for a solution

Howard Snell

#2. I don't want to over generalize, but I believe that women are typically drawn to leadership styles that focus on consensus building, effective listening and working in teams. That's certainly been my leadership style, and I think it's been very successful.

Margaret Hamburg

#3. The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

James Cash Penney

#4. Effective listening is something that can absolutely be learned and mastered. Even if you find attentive listening difficult and, in certain situations, boring or unpleasant, that doesn't mean you can't do it. You just have to know what to work on.

Travis Bradberry

#5. Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.

Tom Peters

#6. 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

#7. Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

Carl Rogers

#8. I wish you'd fall in love with me," she said.
"Why?"
"Because you're really someone worth falling in love with. And if we were in love, I wouldn't be drifting. I wouldn't be nobody. At least not while I was with you.

Anne Rampling

#9. The roots of effective leadership lie in simple things, one of which is listening. Listening to someone demonstrates respect; it shows that you value their ideas and are willing to hear them.

John Baldoni

#10. 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

#11. I believe one of the requirements of good leadership is the ability to listen - really listen - to those in your organization. An effective leader is very good at listening, and it's difficult to listen when you are talking.

John Wooden

#12. My learning process is by eye alone; it's not at all scientific.

Miuccia Prada

#13. I don't believe in good music and bad music anymore. I'm through with that phase of my life. Sometimes I just wanna feel good, so I put on a good record. But mostly I'm more of a businessman than a music fan, so I'm listening to music in terms of, is this effective or not effective?

Questlove

#14. The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.

Ajahn Amaro

#15. Talking doesn't get your point across but listening does.

Debasish Mridha

#16. When I first got interested in comics at the time I was studying architecture and I discovered comics as a medium through listening to Art who was courting me by reading me Little Nemo and Krazy Kat by George Herriman. It was really very effective.

Francoise Mouly

#17. And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

Brenda Ueland

#18. The ministry of fear that won't let you live. The ministry of grace that doesn't forgive.

Ozzy Osbourne

#19. 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

#20. The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'

Alfred Brendel

#21. I was thinking ... "
"We know," Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker

Davis Bunn

#22. My old man taught me to never trust anything that bleeds for three days and doesn't die.

Tommy Tran

#23. Your most valuable currency is what comes most naturally to you. Cash in!

Danielle LaPorte

#24. You're unstoppable not because you're stronger than your challenges/competitors. It's because you're consistent. You won't quit easily!!!

Assegid Habtewold

#25. Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

Garry Kasparov

#26. In order to be effective, be responsive. In order to be responsive, listen.

Sharon Weil

#27. Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys.

Sam Walton

#28. Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.

Don Meyer

#29. Effective communication requires active listening skills.

Farshad Asl

#30. If love is a disease, I suppose I'm infected.

Kristin Hannah

#31. Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.

Jeaniene Frost