Top 56 Quotes About Listening Skills
#1. Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Frank Tyger
#2. The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.
Steve Goodier
#3. You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives,
The crackle of their funeral pyres,
Dick Allen
#4. There are times that all you need is someone who will listen to you without judging you - not telling you what you should have done or should do, but simply, listening to you
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#5. I always listen to what I can leave out.
Miles Davis
#6. God speaks to us every day only we don't know how to listen.
Mahatma Gandhi
#7. 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
#8. There is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#9. Listening is the key. The whole objective of a howl is to be heard.
Amit Pandey
#10. I believe that listening is one of the most important skills for any teacher, parent, leader, entrepreneur or, well, just about anyone who has a pulse.
Richard Branson
#11. Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak
Richard Branson
#12. Effective communication requires active listening skills.
Farshad Asl
#13. Being receptive, being able to listen openly and well, is a crucial skill for creative problem-solving.
Paul A. Kaufman
#14. Be warned - Hammond does tend to be a bit optimistic about these kind of things. If the army were made up of one-legged mutes, he would praise their balance and their listening skills.
Brandon Sanderson
#15. All of us need better skills in listening, conversing, respecting one another's uniqueness, because these are essential for strong relationships.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#16. From listening and silence can be learn a lot of, but these skills to be learn that's the hard and complicated work...
Deyth Banger
#17. When students practice good classroom listening skills, these also become useful life skills.
Michael S. Lawson
#18. Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.
Mary Mihalic
#19. We must be present enough and receptive enough to "hear" with our whole being beyond just the words that are being spoken.
Henry Kimsey-House
#20. From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers' industries.
Samuel J. Palmisano
#21. Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering.
Sharon Salzberg
#22. Tim Bee has demonstrated his toughness and his compassion, his ability to lead while at the same time listening to others. These are skills few people in public life have. We need Tim Bee working for us in Congress.
Jim Kolbe
#24. The girl was kind in a special way; when you spoke to her, she seemed to stop thinking of whatever she been thinking and listened to you altogether.
Ellery Queen
#25. I'd much rather hear someone's unique interpretation of their own experience. Those who negate or override someone else's experience in order to one-up them or to show off their own knowledge or perceived abilities are in truth showing off their lack of listening skills and wisdom.
Tonya Sheridan
#26. You will never be able to truly step inside another person, to see the world as he sees it, until you develop the pure desire, the strength of personal character, and the positive Emotional Bank Account, as well as the empathetic listening skills to do it.
Stephen Covey
#28. Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.
Peter Drucker
#29. He didn't say anything to the contrary or interrupt me in any way, which was nice. (Polite listening skills really are rare, don't you think?)
Matthew Quick
#30. It was Henry's nature to listen, and many times during the week he would say, 'Gosh, I'm awful sorry to hear that, ' or 'Say, isn't that something?
Elizabeth Strout
#31. We are far more revealing by the questions we ask than the answers we give. Answer briefly to sense where their questions are heading.
Kare Anderson
#32. 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
#33. Our archaeological ancestry lost hair while growing sweat glands to reduce panting in the hot African sun. One outcome evolved the origin of our speech. Another conquered our ability to shut the hell up and listen. Now? Politicians grunting "On the Origin of Speeches" past one another.
Brian Spellman
#34. Listen to others very carefully. Shut your inner noise and focus on verbal and non verbal cues.
Abhishek Ratna
#35. Honor your relationships by developing listening skills.
Allan Lokos
#36. Your listening, not your speaking, is your most direct access to leadership effectiveness.
Al Ritter
#37. Listening is one of the lesser-known skills that mistresses offer.
Betty Jane Wylie
#38. A true friend knows when to give advice and when to just listen.
"stuff I think about" book by Sondra Faye
Sondra Faye
#39. Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.
Anonymous
#40. Turn off the radio, TV, DVD, iPod, computer and cell phone. Then, listen.
Gina Greenlee
#41. Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen ... One can listen better if one sees the whole.
Bill Drayton
#42. The chamber music repertoire is so vast that if one is genuinely curious about music, the art of listening, understanding and responding to a score, the elementary skills and requirements of chamber works are easily applicable to that of any solo playing.
Wu Han
#43. Listening is an important skill to spark creativity and cultivate empathy.
Pearl Zhu
#45. I never learn anything from listening to myself (Ovid Byron, in Flight Behavior)
Barbara Kingsolver
#46. Powerful people do not have good listening skills. They hate to listen. They succeed by getting good at faking it ... If you're an extrovert, you think while you're talking. And it's impossible to listen to someone if you are thinking of the next thing you want to say.
Penelope Trunk
#47. Looking deeply" means observing something or someone with so much concentration that the distinction between observer and observed disappears.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#48. A powerful leader, like a conductor, need not say a word for his message to be communicated.
Orly Wahba
#49. One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.
David Grossman
#50. Active listening involves both demonstration and perception.
James Pyle
#51. The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.
Stephen R. Covey
#52. Personal truth differs from one person to the next, so how can truth itself be a constant? At least we can listen to each other in truth.
Jay Woodman
#53. If you hear I will speak but if you listen I will talk.
Pushpa Rana
#54. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
Zeno Of Citium
#55. I've learned to get really good at this - say one thing when I'm thinking about something else, act like I'm listening when I'm not, pretend to be calm and happy when I'm really freaking out. It's one of the skills you perfect as you get older
Lauren Oliver
#56. so many sounds do come close to our ears each moment. What we allow into our mind and how we interpret what we listen to is what propels our thought and actions
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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