Quotes About Good Listeners

#1. The mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot. The mark is that you can get others to talk a lot. Thus, good schmoozer's are good listeners, not good talkers.

Guy Kawasaki

#2. Good listeners always hear something novel

Ela Crain

#3. Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.

Charles R. Swindoll

#4. They were good listeners, worldly yet easily shocked, hungry for details, curious and nonjudgmental at the same time, always happy to give advice, but only if it was requested.

Tom Perrotta

#5. Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

John Ray

#6. When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? When listeners refrain from evil hearing. At present there are many so credulous of evil, they will receive suspicions and impressions against persons whom they don't know, from a person whom they do know
an authority good for nothing.

Augustus William Hare

#7. A good listener truly wants to know the speaker.

John Powell

#8. Entrepreneurs need to listen. They don't need to be good listeners (although it can only help) but they need to know when to listen.

Ronnie Apteker

#9. Listeners, that brings us to the end of another Potterwatch. We don't know when it will be possible to broadcast again, but you can be sure we shall be back. Keep twiddling those dials: the next password will be 'Mad-Eye.' Keep each other safe. Keep faith. Good night.

J.K. Rowling

#10. Tommy (Thompson) is a good listener, and he's a pretty good actor, too.

George W. Bush

#11. People aren't very good listeners, by nature ... Part of being a good communicator is recognizing and understanding that and trying to make the complex simple. I try to capture a concept, an idea or a moment in a few words. If they remember it, job done.

Mike Tomlin

#12. Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

Helen Keller

#13. I treat everybody equal, and so I want to be sure that my listeners and my followers do the same if they're gonna represent me. And if I'm gonna represent them, then I also want to do it in a good way.

ASAP Rocky

#14. Leaders must be good listeners. It's rule number one, and it's the most powerful thing they can do to build trusted relationships.

Lee Ellis

#15. 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

#16. Very important people have told me that they prefer good listeners to good talkers, but the ability to listen seems rarer than almost any other good trait.

Dale Carnegie

#17. Miracle centered gospels do more damage than good to the listeners and nation.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are initiating with them, can easily get caught in these exhausting and unsatisfying relationships.

Adam S. McHugh

#19. Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.

Andrew Cuomo

#20. Country music was a part of my life. Now it isn't. We had a good relationship, really, but we wanted each other at arm's length. The people in Nashville didn't want to be responsible for my looks or my actions. But they sure did like the listeners I brought.

K.d. Lang

#21. A good speech is like a miniskirt
long enough to over all the vital parts, short enough to entice and captivate listeners.

Naa Shalman

#22. Perhaps because women are seen as good listeners, I find that a traveling woman - perhaps especially a traveling feminist - becomes a kind of celestial bartender.

Gloria Steinem

#23. It is notable that many of the Semi-Arians were men of exceptional moral rigor but apparently little gentleness,13 and although Gregory also exhorted his listeners to focus on doing good works, he reminded them, God specially rejoices in revealing Himself to the world as Love.

Justin S. Holcomb

#24. Good listeners have a huge advantage. For one, when they engage in conversation, they make people 'feel' heard. They 'feel' that someone really understands their wants, needs and desires. And for good reason; a good listener does care to understand.

Simon Sinek

#25. Good listeners are perceived as good conversationalists.

Susan RoAne

#26. Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

#27. Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

Walter Anderson

#28. I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

Marilyn Monroe

#29. Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.

Mignon McLaughlin

#30. If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.

Travis Barker